The workplace abuse was devastating. But the betrayal that followed was worse. When trusted colleagues turned their backs, friends disappeared, and everyone pretended I had died. Understand the four layers of betrayal that left deeper scars than the original abuse. If you've watched your professional world crumble while others looked away, you're not alone. This is what betrayal looks like—and why it hurts so much.
Read MoreThey turned everyone against you. Now you're questioning your own reality. Workplace smear campaigns follow four predictable phases designed to isolate you, destroy your reputation, and push you out. You're not imagining it—this systematic destruction is real. Learn the warning signs, understand their tactics, and discover how to fight back at each phase. Your reputation can recover, but only if you know what you're really facing.
Read MoreWorkplace abuse victims often hear 'just quit' - but that advice can cost you severance packages and legal rights. Employment lawyer explains why strategic escape planning protects your interests better than quitting.
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Read MoreHR is gaslighting you - pretending workplace abuse complaints never happened isn't memory loss, it's strategy. Workplace expert shares 5 essential tips to document everything and protect yourself when HR tries to silence you.
Read MoreWhile there is much to be alarmed about right now, I want to focus on one area that has not changed: employment anti-discrimination laws.
Read MoreDoes it feel like CHAOS right now? That's the narcissist's favorite tool, and we need to recognize what is happening as such.
Read MoreIn my effort to help employees increase their severance pay, I am struck by several recurring themes that I hear as excuses to not ask for more.
Read MoreThis next phase, called mobbing, is especially painful for me to write about because of how harshly I experienced it myself.
Read MoreMy mother lived a good long life. She left this world two years ago, at age 94.
Read MoreNext I want to explain devaluation and discard: when the boom is lowered and you often have no idea what has hit you.
Read MoreThis post is about the creative ways that thieves steal your work.
Read MoreThe smear campaign is hard to write about because so much of it happened behind my back.
Read MoreUnderstand stages one and two of covert workplace abuse.
Read MoreThis is the starting point for a series of posts to explain the stages of covert workplace abuse that I suffered as have many others I speak with.
Read More"Volunteers" at a for-profit event may be "employees" owed wages
Read MoreLatest example of white men failing up
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