{"id":716,"date":"2015-06-11T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annelitwin.com\/?p=716"},"modified":"2015-06-11T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T13:00:16","slug":"career-sabotage-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/blog-posts\/career-sabotage-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Sabotage &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[In the next example, Kendra, a white manager in her fifties in a\u00a0consulting firm, described taking a new job and experiencing career\u00a0aggression:\n\n\n<blockquote>This group of three women who had been there a long time, who\u00a0were all friends, began to really try to sabotage me. They\u2019d give\u00a0me hate mail in my in-box. This was before e-mail. They would\u00a0steal my mail and throw it away. They would put a key to the side\u00a0of my car on both sides. They would talk about me incessantly to\u00a0other people and say I wasn\u2019t really very good. They would gossip\u00a0about me to anybody and they\u2019d tell stories about me, like I was\u00a0sleeping with the boss, which wasn\u2019t true, and they would just try\u00a0to sabotage me.<\/blockquote>\n\n\nKendra reported that she did not even know who was doing these\u00a0things to her until considerable time had elapsed. The hate mail and\u00a0property damage were upsetting, but stealing and destroying her mail\u00a0had a negative impact on her ability to perform her job when she did\u00a0not receive information or documents that others thought she had. Her\u00a0reputation and credibility were also impugned. Once again, Kendra did\u00a0not know these women.\nThe key to this dynamic is in Kendra\u2019s statement that the women\u00a0\u201chad been there a long time.\u201d She went on to explain that she eventually\u00a0learned that they did not feel valued and had not been promoted and\u00a0that she had been hired in above them, even though they were more\u00a0experienced and had equivalent levels of education\u2014another setup for\u00a0horizontal violence to be triggered.\n&nbsp;\nAn excerpt from my book,\u00a0<em>New Rules for Women<\/em>, available at Amazon (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0982056982\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0982056982\/<\/a>).]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[83,116,225,550,551,612,634],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","category-excerpt","tag-career-sabotage","tag-competition","tag-gender","tag-stere","tag-stereotypes","tag-women","tag-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}