Workplace Humiliation Essay

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Edward Garry Alston English 1301.226 Dr. Nancy Carothers 3 March 2014 Workplace Humiliation Employers can't choose to treat people with dignity just when it is convenient. Workplace humiliation can occur in a variety of ways. An employer could insult or embarrass an employee in front of other employees, or a co-worker could make rude or humiliating remarks towards another employee, making working conditions less than comfortable. That humiliation should be the basis for making certain employment practices or incidents accountable. I am using this topic based on a movie called Office Space, and the characters experiences. Peter Gibbons is a computer programmer working for company called Initech. Every day, he and his friends Samir and Michael Bolton, suffer endless indignities and humiliations in their workspace from their boss, Bill Lumbergh. For Peter, stuck in his apartment with paper-thin walls and IKEA furniture, every day is worse than the one before it, so every day is the worst day of his life. Humiliation has a significant impact on the working lives of many people. In this essay, I will cover what is involved when individuals undergo significant work place humiliation. ”I learned,” he wrote in his memoirs, “that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. I sought always to defeat my opponents without dishonoring them.”(Mandella) What is humiliation? Definition: the abasement of pride, which creates mortification or leads to a state of being humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission. It is an emotion felt by a person whose social status has just decreased. It can be brought about through intimidation, physical or mental mistreatment or trickery, or by embarrassment if a person is revealed to have committed a socially or legally unacceptable act. (Stands4LLC) Humiliation is conducted invisibly in the twisted
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