We have this serious workplace bullying issue at an unnamed state government organisation. Their whole strategy has been deny, deny, deny despite all the evidence totally refuting their sad but inevitable denials. Fortunately, I have documented the interactions and I have directly witnessed some of these interactions. Yet, I have never been asked to provide a formal statement, nor has anyone else in the portfolio area.

They have been running a protection racket for covering up wrongdoing, the people named in the action who hold de facto status in the portfolio. They have gained pseudo power in the portfolio by engaging in questionable practices that breach the organisational code of conduct and all ethical requirements and obligations. An organisation has ethical obligations, a values statement should be more than just a document that is never referenced.

So, where to from here? I have been working from behind the scenes to bring this individual back to work. The manager named in the action that has been preventing him from returning to work has retired now. There is a little more to it than that, we are all breathing a sigh of relief. Well, his lackeys are feeling the pressure, they know the protection racket is up, they are exposed and their incompetence that has been covered up will soon be exposed. They are concerned and rightly so, they are waiting for the clean out and they know they may be targeted themselves.