Tweet
I don't know if anyone remembers, but a few months back I was attacked at work by a guy who tried to stick his tongue down my throat.
I wrote a report, but didn't really expect anything to come of it, since some of my previous employers definitely would have considered putting such a report in a file at the back of a drawer as dealing with it.
I got a call a few weeks later letting me know that the guy had been spotted again, the police had been called, and he had been removed from the premises and warned not to return. And then, returning to work after a bit of an absence (not related to this incident), I discovered that a new policy has been put in place, issuing all staff with a 'personal attack alarm' at the beginning of each shift. I've heard some moaning that it's 'pointless' and 'stupid' and 'no one's going to get attacked here', and I didn't say anything because I don't really want to publicise that it happened to me... But privately I'm really pleased that it has been taken seriously, and something concrete has been done about it, and that 'we'll deal with it' wasn't just words.
So, despite the occasional SC incident, I currently think my employers are marvellous, and my confidence has actually had a bit of a boost after being pretty close to rock bottom for quite some time after the incident. It just feels so good to be taken seriously and treated like my safety is important (can you tell the calibre of management I've had previously?
)
I wrote a report, but didn't really expect anything to come of it, since some of my previous employers definitely would have considered putting such a report in a file at the back of a drawer as dealing with it.
I got a call a few weeks later letting me know that the guy had been spotted again, the police had been called, and he had been removed from the premises and warned not to return. And then, returning to work after a bit of an absence (not related to this incident), I discovered that a new policy has been put in place, issuing all staff with a 'personal attack alarm' at the beginning of each shift. I've heard some moaning that it's 'pointless' and 'stupid' and 'no one's going to get attacked here', and I didn't say anything because I don't really want to publicise that it happened to me... But privately I'm really pleased that it has been taken seriously, and something concrete has been done about it, and that 'we'll deal with it' wasn't just words.
So, despite the occasional SC incident, I currently think my employers are marvellous, and my confidence has actually had a bit of a boost after being pretty close to rock bottom for quite some time after the incident. It just feels so good to be taken seriously and treated like my safety is important (can you tell the calibre of management I've had previously?
)
Comment