'S*** happens': Chairman of Australian radio station behind Royal DJ prank casually dismisses incident that 'caused nurse to commit suicide'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-chairman-Max-Moore-Wilton.html#ixzz2ijLPvVHy
While this guy worded his statement inappropriately, he has a point. Things do happen, and unfortunately that nurse obviously had a lot of other things going on. I really think it's time to stop bringing this up now...
An inquest into the death of Miss Saldanha was adjourned last month after Westminster Coroner Dr Fiona Wilcox asked the family to supply medical records that might provide evidence about her state of mind at the time of her death.
IMO the DJs and Austereo are the scapegoats in this case and the MSM in the UK are to blame. I have followed this case since the beginning and posted about it on another forum ever since.
Initially, I felt so sorry for Jacintha and her family but I have changed my mind since I heard that she tried to commit suicide once in December, 2011 and another time in January, 2012 - both in India where she was holidaying with her family. She was diagnosed with depression and put on antidepressants and should have been referred to a psychiatrist once she got back to the UK. IMO she should have been on suicide watch.
Jacintha Saldanha, who took her own life days after Australian DJs pretended to be the Queen and Prince Charles, apparently took an overdose of pills during a family trip to India last year.
She recovered after being rushed to hospital.
But nine days later the mum of two attempted suicide again after jumping from a building, according to reports in India.
Jacintha, 46, spent days in intensive care and was put on a course of antidepressants for nine months.
Last night, her brother Naveen Saldanha, 42, said: We didnt know about the first incident but we knew about the second incident.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/kate-middleton-prank-call-royal-1504231#ixzz2ijPoO4Pn
But we have to go back to the root of her problems. What caused her in 2011 to want to take two attempts to kill herself?
Was she unhappy at home or was she unhappy at work?
There is evidence that has been published in the MSM that Jacintha could have been bullied by hospital administration over the privacy breach and maybe hospital administrators and this should be investigated for their role in this evwen though they have denied this.
One needs look no further than Ontario, and specifically Peterborough Regional Health Centre, to see front line health care workers being bullied and terrorized by hospital administrators over privacy breaches.
The real culprits and the ones who should be criminally charged in the UK are the hospital administration. It seems she worked and lived at the Hospital and was on a medical alert restricted duties routine.
Knowing this why would the Senior Hospital Administrators and up to the CEO allow her to be screening telephone calls for a high security Royal?
Why would the Hospital release her name and allow it to be written beneath the media broadcast of the actual phone recording?
Was it an underhanded ploy to deflect blame from the hospital and the administrators?
What other possible reason would hospital administrators deliberately release the name of someone on suicide watch?
It seems some of the dots to why she may have committed suicide are starting to be connected and
the hospital administrators seem more culpable than the DJs at this point. However the MSM seem to be protecting them.
I mean who are the professionals at mental health in this. A couple of DJs or hospital staff?
Privacy breaches have become the new justification to cover up incompetent hospital management's training on privacy and purge hospitals of unwanted employees.
What better environment to cut budgets and stifle criticism when your employees are terrified that one misspoken word can end a career.
However, IMO the workplace bullying must have started in 2011. I cannot find the link now but I have read that Jacintha was on day duty and a junior member of staff bullied her. They then put Jacintha on to the night shift as the solution to the problem rather than putting the junior on the night shift. The night shift is a lonely shift if you are depressed and have been bullied at work especially if you are without the support of your family during the week.
Your life is all work and no play - work at night and sleep all day.
However, I would be interested to know if her husband or she ever admitted to the hospital that she had tried to commit suicide twice before she returned to work and they all monitored her and made sure she took her medication and attended a psychiatrist regularly. Or did Jacintha and her husband just act as if nothing had happened and denied it?
If she was bullied at work, she could have applied for Worker's Compensation and taken her employers to court for compensation and taken six months off work on sick leave. IMO neither the hospital, her husband nor she took responsibility for her mental health as she could have argued that it was not a safe workplace for her and demanded the day shift if she had evidence.
Workplace bullying is a serious epidemic.
Kate Middleton's Nurse's Suicide Notes Show Post-Prank Bullying Contributed To Fatal Decision
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/annabel-burn/kate-middletons-nurses-su_b_2330479.html
This is a subject very close to my heart, having had personal experience of bullying at work, and also seeing friends suffering the same horrible problem.
So what exactly is workplace bullying?
Is it also a failure to defend people? it commonly takes the form of discrediting quality of work, gossip, rumour spreading and other tactics used to discredit an individual's reputation. It can be very hard to pin down because of it's often covert nature.
Specialist Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik says that workplace bullying is "persistent verbal and nonverbal aggression at work, that includes personal attacks, social ostracism, and a multitude of other painful messages and hostile interactions."
More often than not though, the lack of support and passivity of others in allowing bullies to operate, is the most damaging aspect. It seems we live in a society where we are increasingly reluctant to stick our necks out for each other. If Jacintha had seen more support from her colleagues, perhaps she would still be here.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/annabel-burn/kate-middletons-nurses-su_b_2330479.html
Research by the
Workplace Bullying Institute, suggests that the following are some of the most common tactics used by workplace bullies:
1. Falsely accusing someone of "errors" not actually made (71 percent).
2. Stared, glared, was nonverbally intimidating and was clearly showing hostility (68 percent).
3. Used the "silent treatment" to "ice out" and separate from others (64 percent).
4. Started, or failed to stop, destructive rumors or gossip about the person (56 percent).
5. Encouraged people to turn against the person being tormented (55 percent).
6. Singled out and isolated one person from other coworkers, either socially or physically (54 percent).
7. Publicly displayed gross, undignified, but not illegal, behavior (53 percent).
8. Stole credit for work done by others (plagiarism) (47 percent).
9. Used confidential information about a person to humiliate privately or publicly (45 percent).
10. Retaliated against the person after a complaint was filed (45 percent).
11. Made verbal put-downs/insults based on gender, race, accent, age or language, disability (44 percent).
12. Launched a baseless campaign to oust the person; effort not stopped by the employer (43 percent).
People's misfortune, (in Jacintha's case, answering a phone call), and personal lives should not be fodder for entertainment. Jacintha Saldanha wasn't an attention hungry celeb, she was an ordinary person doing the best she could. Why didn't anyone stick up for her?
The reason is that IMO she had been bullied in 2011 and maybe earlier in 2010 as it creeps up on you. I thought I was strong enough to deal with it as I loved teaching.
I was bullied for two years as a teacher by three member of staff one of which was a serial bully staff when I was a single parent raising two teenage children. It had detrimental effects on my mental health but luckily I went to a psychiatrist who put me on antidepressants and would not let me go back to work unless they offered me a psychologically safe workplace. I took them to court and won an out of court settlement of $35,000 in 2000, invested the money in shares and became self-employed after that experience.
I once thought about suicide hoping I would have a car accident which would kill me but that is as far as I ever went. I suffered what is called "reactive depression and anxiety". This experience ended my teaching career of 30 years since I was in my 20s and I had to sign a document that I would not go to the media or ever work for that organisation again. The best thing about it is that the shares I bought are now worth over $350,000 bought in 2000!
The bottom line is that the first psychiatrist I went to told me to resign as I did not belong in such a dysfunctional culture but I wanted justice and hung on to get it. I would now advise anyone to resign as soon as the workplace bullying starts as most people do not survive after it as you are isolated and usually only competent people are bullied.
This is why I have the utmost empathy and compassion for Jacintha's situation and wish I could have counselled her. My profession since I left teaching has been to counsel people who have been bullied in the workplace as I am a graduate in psychology but have chosen not to be verified here.
Suicide is such a waste of human life!
