{"id":714,"date":"2015-06-04T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annelitwin.com\/?p=714"},"modified":"2015-06-04T09:00:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T13:00:50","slug":"career-sabotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/blog-posts\/career-sabotage\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Sabotage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tA new woman had started at the company, and I had been with\u00a0the company for about two years. I had a very strong relationship\u00a0with my boss and his boss, and we had been working together\u00a0for a while. This new woman came in and felt threatened, I think,\u00a0by the relationship that I had with my bosses and the team and\u00a0probably with my peers as well. She falsely reported me to HR for\u00a0having a romantic relationship with one of the bosses. I\u2019d define\u00a0that as sabotage.<\/blockquote>\n\n\nThis story is an example of career sabotage, as opposed to simply\u00a0indirect aggression, because the intention seemed to be to damage\u00a0Tammy\u2019s standing in the organization. Tammy described hearing at\u00a0the \u201cwater cooler\u201d that someone was circulating rumors about her. But\u00a0she was surprised and very embarrassed to be called by the Human\u00a0Resources Department (HR) and asked very probing questions about her\u00a0personal life based on rumors started by a person as yet unidentified to\u00a0Tammy. The tactics of the HR representatives indicated to Tammy that\u00a0they believed the rumors and that her credibility had been damaged.\u00a0While Tammy eventually found out who had circulated the rumors,\u00a0she did not know the woman involved. In the absence of any type of\u00a0relationship between Tammy and her saboteur, this story of career\u00a0aggression represents a clear example of horizontal violence\u2014oppressed\u00a0group members taking their frustration out on other members of their\u00a0group, in this case woman to woman. It couldn\u2019t have been a personal\u00a0vendetta when Tammy didn\u2019t even know the other woman.\n \nAn excerpt from my book,\u00a0New Rules for Women<\/em>, available at Amazon (http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0982056982\/<\/a>).]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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