{"id":515,"date":"2009-05-28T09:20:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T07:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tsiblog.potlikker.com\/blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2009-10-22T03:23:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T01:23:54","slug":"nasty-or-nurture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"Nasty or Nurture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This title sums up Monday&#8217;s New York Times article by Mickey Meese called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/10\/business\/10women.html?_r=1\">A Workplace Civil War: Women Bullying Women<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Her article talks <img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-526\" title=\"nasty-nurture-blog\" src=\"http:\/\/tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/nasty-nurture-blog1-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"nasty-nurture-blog\" \/>about the increased stress levels in the workplace due to the economic downtown.\u00c2\u00a0 As a result of this stress, studies from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workplacebullying.org\/\">Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI)<\/a> have found that there is an increase in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yelling, scheming and sabotaging: all signs that a bully is at work.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>In fact this \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Workplace Civil War,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as Ms. Meese describes it, is more prevalent among women targeting their own gender. Some stats and thoughts on the women bullying women are: 40% of bullies are women. Women prefer &#8216;their own kind&#8217; 70% of the time when selecting a target.\u00c2\u00a0 Lots of thought-provoking arguments on why bullying exists in the workplace.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workplacebullying.org\/2009\/05\/20\/wow-bullying\/\">Check this out for more information<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Appalled is my first reaction, but sadly I&#8217;m not shocked\u00c2\u00a0 having personally suffered from this lack of sisterhood during my tenure in corporate America.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 After so many years of struggle to achieve an equal footing with men in the workplace how did we get here?\u00c2\u00a0 This nasty behavior is counter to the nurturing DNA women possess.\u00c2\u00a0 How do we, as women in the workplace,\u00c2\u00a0 turn the nasty into nurture?\u00c2\u00a0 Or do you believe that today&#8217;s workplace culture is so toxic that we are beyond hope?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This title sums up Monday&#8217;s New York Times article by Mickey Meese called A Workplace Civil War: Women Bullying Women.\u00c2\u00a0 Her article talks about the increased stress levels in the workplace due to the economic downtown.\u00c2\u00a0 As a result of this stress, studies from the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI) have found that there is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,9],"tags":[23,30,31,37,46,57,71,85,106,115,119,128,129,182,184,392,186],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}