Screw the Hierarchy Deb Falzoi

Social change requires collective action. Two targets in Texas, Dee Montanez and Stuart Mayper, have turned their experiences into a fight for psychologically safe workplaces. In this episode, I talk with them about why they got involved with passing legislation to protect workers from psychological abuse and what's happening with the Workplace Psychological Safety Act in Texas.

If you live IN Texas:
Write to your state legislators: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/help-get-co-sponsors-for-workplace-anti-abuse-legislation-in-texas/manage
Write to Senate committee members in charge of scheduling a hearing date: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/urge-committee-member-to-move-workplace-anti-abuse-legislation-forward-in-texas

If you live OUTSIDE OF Texas:
Sign the petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/pass-the-workplace-psychological-safety-act


If you've been abused at work and would like to share your story anonymously, email info@dignitytogether.org.

If you feel like you need more help, I have a free guide to recovery steps at http://www.dignitytogether.org/targets.

Facebook: @HierarchyPodcast
Twitter: @ScrewHierarchy

A big question on the minds of targets of workplace abuse is: how do I prevent abuse at work from happening again? While we can't prevent abuse at work but are now prepared to see red flags, we can arm ourselves with information about potential employers without having to sift through hundreds of reviews on job boards.

Culturama.is is a game-changer for our job hunts and employer accountability. It's a brand-new tool that automatically analyses 4.8 million job review board opinions to help you compare the largest 1,500 global organizations on work-related problems so you can make informed career decisions. In this episode, I talk with Culturama founder Tomasz Urbanski about what Culturama is, how it works, and how Culturama can disrupt employer lack of accountability.

Get a quick walk-through:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puhQv8recWo

Visit the tool:
https://culturama.is/#/home/main

Then upvote and review it so it can climb the rankings, and we can get the word out to employers will pay attention to their ratings:
https://www.producthunt.com/products/culturama#culturama


If you've been abused at work and would like to share your story anonymously, email info@dignitytogether.org.

If you feel like you need more help, I have a free guide to recovery steps at http://www.dignitytogether.org/targets.

Facebook: @HierarchyPodcast
Twitter: @ScrewHierarchy

Around the U.S., workers at companies of all sizes are increasingly speaking up to those in power around mistreatment, which disproportionately harms women and people of color. In this episode, I talk with Alex Horne, a GE whistleblower who founded #GEToo to connect targets of abuse at work and to mobilize them collectively to fight to end forced arbitration through the FAIR Act.

Take action on the FAIR Act:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/urge-your-federal-legislators-to-support-workers-rights-bills


If you've been abused at work and would like to share your story anonymously, email info@dignitytogether.org.

If you feel like you need more help, I have a free guide to recovery steps at http://www.dignitytogether.org/targets.

Facebook: @HierarchyPodcast
Twitter: @ScrewHierarchy

We know physical injury is harm. We also know there's a mind-body connection, and the stress from abuse at work can result in such stress-related symptoms as anxiety and digestive issues. But abusive behavior can also result in physical injury seen on brain scans, meaning psychological injury IS physical injury. In this episode, I talk with Dr. Jennifer Fraser, author of The Bullied Brain, who walks us through the research in neuroscience and offers hope when looking at neuroplasticity: we can restore our brains back to health.

If you've been abused at work and would like to share your story anonymously, email info@dignitytogether.org.

If you feel like you need more help, I have a free guide to recovery steps at http://www.dignitytogether.org/targets.

Facebook: @HierarchyPodcast
Twitter: @ScrewHierarchy

An insurance adjustor filed a complaint about transgender discrimination. The complaint escalated to racial discrimination, ignoring, and retaliation — all while the company touted its support of diversity. In this episode, hear from the insurance adjustor who endured a months-long complaint process that ended in his termination for a bogus problem and his takeaway that the system is designed to not work.


If you've been abused at work and would like to share your story anonymously, email info@dignitytogether.org.

If you feel like you need more help, I have a free guide to recovery steps at http://www.dignitytogether.org/targets and a signup for daily boosts through your inbox at the same place.

Facebook: @HierarchyPodcast
Twitter: @ScrewHierarchy

Recovery from such trauma as workplace abuse follows a typical pattern. In this episode, I talk about those typical stages of recovery and how we're leaning on the collective part of recovery by giving targeted employees a way to take their voices back, minimize the isolation, and give others permission to speak up in a national protest across the country.

Join us on Saturday, October 22 at Lives Lost to Workplace Bullying and Mobbing at a location near you (or start an event near you) to honor 15 victims who lost their lives after abuse at work and publicly let targeted employees and legislators that we're not backing down from fighting for protections for workers:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/lives-lost-to-workplace-bullying-and-mobbing/


If you've been abused at work and would like to share your story anonymously, email info@dignitytogether.org.

If you feel like you need more help, I have a free guide to recovery steps at http://www.dignitytogether.org/targets and a signup for daily boosts through your inbox at the same place.

Facebook: @HierarchyPodcast
Twitter: @ScrewHierarchy