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Are these places really better than Kuwait?
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Hiawatha



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
my experience of one well known institution was so severe that it caused (albeit temporary) was loss of memory, not to mention the humiliation, degradation, and fear caused by co-workers stalking and psychological violence.
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bje



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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my experience of one well known institution was so severe that it caused (albeit temporary) was loss of memory, not to mention the humiliation, degradation, and fear caused by co-workers stalking and psychological violence.

Cool! Sounds like the 'thriller/horror' DVD I watched last night...I woke up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night; the experience quite spoiled the following day in the classroom.
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eha



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
All right, all right, bje; don't diss the very real unpleasantness that the tactics of isolation and exclusion can lead to. I'm sure Hiawatha didn't really feel 'stalked' in the sense of a horror movie; but there are days when the first seven people I encounter on entering the workplace, will INVARIABLY TURN OUT TO BE THE VERY SEVEN I would probably sell my first-born never to have to encounter again. And yet we all have to pretend that, in a free society, we wouldn't be tearing each other's throats out. All that energy that should be going into building a civilized environment, going into --- survival. A few days a month like that, and you do begin to wonder if les chose aren't to some extent contre vous.
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bje



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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All right, all right, bje; don't diss the very real unpleasantness that the tactics of isolation and exclusion can lead to. I'm sure Hiawatha didn't really feel 'stalked' in the sense of a horror movie; but there are days when the first seven people I encounter on entering the workplace, will INVARIABLY TURN OUT TO BE THE VERY SEVEN I would probably sell my first-born never to have to encounter again. And yet we all have to pretend that, in a free society, we wouldn't be tearing each other's throats out. All that energy that should be going into building a civilized environment, going into --- survival. A few days a month like that, and you do begin to wonder if les chose aren't to some extent contre vous.

Thank god you're providing a generic shoulder to cry on, eha. You seem to have a troublesome time in the Gulf Workplace. More power to you for enduring in the face of a plethora of psychopaths- and first thing in the morning at that- when one least needs it. Specious, giggly Gulf Ex-pats seem to irk me far more than your garden variety collegial stalker, standover tactic manager, staffroom bully etc...Where do you work, so I can refrain from ever applying for a position there?
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eha



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 4:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
If you've followed the general tone of this thread (including your own contributions) you'll be aware that it doesn't matter where you go:

They're EVERYWHERE, bje; they're ALL AROUND US. TRUST NO ONE. The truth is NOT out there; it's RIGHT HERE, in the classroom, in the staffroom, in the next cubicle.

By the way, is 'plethora' the correct collective term for academic psychopaths? It's witty ('p' as in 'pneumonia') -- I'll give you that.

How about 'a nastiness of academic psychopaths'? 'a supeficiality of academic psychopaths'? 'a crawling of ac ps' ? 'an unpleasantness of ac ps'? Whatya think?
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