272- DOWN And DIRTY TRICKS In The WORKPLACE!....

Ever wonder if anyone who works in your business, office, plant, local government operations and even elected officials, in a position "higher" than you, would ever pull a D & D trick on you to make sure that you don't move up the ladder of deserved accomplishments, especially behind your proverbial back? Ponder that for a moment or three. So many friends and persons have trusted and shared with me, over the years, dirty tricks played in their workplaces. And I am a firm believer that the concept of KARMA, according to our Western philosophy, WILL kick in to right the wrongs!!

a- Dirty tricks need to be brought out into the open! People, from many walks of life, have been quietly and privately sharing their concerns on this subject of blacklisting...blackballing for years. And what makes it sickening? It deeply hurts someone's inner well-being and in the workplace where $$$ and advancements are being stymied, clandestinely, by those "cowards" in the shadows pulling strings.

b- Play the game, or you, they, don't move up....

c- Empirical knowlege...actually seeing somethig happen is one of those burdens that enough have witnessed in too many businesses, plants, local government, elected officials and, yes, schools. In public schools, persons I've known have revealed lowdown decisions by "henchmen" for a superintendent to send a letter of "non-intent" to continue a teacher's employment. The teacher, with a family, was given a flimsy excuse of taking a day off without just cause. Investigation into the trumped up action revealed that the teacher was at their highest possible salary, with time served, and that the school system was, behind the scenes, wanting to toss out those high salaried teachers to make room for beginning ones at much lower salary, "saving" big bucks! The game is difficult to expose, but the ends here, and with others, is on the way to connecting.
Another case, I'm told, involves a V. Principal who has privately admitted to being in that position to "catch" anyone who doesn't conform to the "higher up's" OWN rules of teaching. That V.P., more and more others are saying to each other, should be canned and sent to work at the nearest convenient store! And you believed that inside some schools' systems were consistently highly intent upon what is best for your children? But what about those "hidden decisions" behind closed doors, to school staffs and teachers, affecting their economic lives and families?

d- Someone shared how they were treated at a local convenience store, recently.
One woman had worked within that store's system for 20 years and was an absolute "terror" and was still working regularly. A newer employee was excellent in handling the public, picked on by that older employee constantly. When the newer one finally, politely, complained to a higher upper? She, not the pissant, was moved to an area that she did not like!

e- And IN a school.... Once upon a time there was a principal who had become paranoid, believing that some teachers were out to "get him". He, behind the scenes, made sure that they did not receive good teaching assignments, made derogatory remarks outside of hearing range and took away extra-curricular assignments expertly handled for years. In particular, teaching assignments that had been earning national recognition for years, were mysteriously switched to the assignments reserved for first-year teachers! Remember, we call that a DIRTY TRICK!
Well, now, some found out that this particular principal had been, for some time, bucking for a "plum" job in his district...not getting it! When he did move to another district with a "plum" job, within a year or so, guess what? He disappeared, not hacking it. K-A-R-M-A......