The Sum of Zero Tolerance
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Zero tolerance, yea that\\u2019s what they keep telling us at all of those training, on all of the pretty fliers posted up in the break room. Zero tolerance for harassment, for violence, for bullying, for hostility, the list goes on. Zero tolerance. There is also zero tolerance for retaliation and reprisal, basically, there is zero-tolerance for payback.
Speak up when you see something wrong, they say. Tell someone when a red flag goes up, there\\u2019s zero tolerance for people coming back at you, they say. God, how I wish this was true. I wish I could look into the eyes of the women I mentor while encouraging them to stand up and promise them they will be safe from the kickback of their superiors or even peers. No, retaliation is not allowed by policy, but we all know that reprisal lives and thrives in the workplace in social clubs on teams, basically wherever humans gather and decide they don\\u2019t like what one of them is saying, reprisal occurs in some form or another. It can be as simple as an eye roll or as serious as a physical beating.\\xa0
We have to stop pretending this doesn\\u2019t happen. We have to stop saying there is zero-tolerance for reprisal and find a way to not let the slithering individuals out there use their crafty manipulative power to hurt those who cry out for help. The ripple effects are so painful, even deadly sometimes. Other employees who don\\u2019t even know they have become a part of it are influenced by the fa\\xe7ade these snakes present and they join right in, hurting the woman who spoke out, without even realizing it.
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