Feeling harassed in the workplace and a recently minted Human Resources professional? No HR experience under your belt yet? Feeling harassed by your employer and or co-workers and decided to not report the instances to HR? Those feelings are hard to deal with alone. If you discover in your heart that you feel bullied on the job and you’re not up to reporting it to the H.R. department because you know it’ll never go anywhere and will start a paper trail,  keep reading.

 

Most Americans get secretly harassed by their employer and try to handle it on their own. Why? They know reporting it to the Human Resources generalist will not only fail to resolve the matter, but they also know it’ll create a paper trail that’s railroaded to cast you, the victim, in a negative light. So what do you do in handling workplace harassment by co-workers and your boss on your own?

 

Five recommended ways to deal with illegal workplace harassment toward you:

 

1. Ignore your employer or shift manager when necessary – This isn’t insubordination. There’s times in certain workplaces where an employer unlawfully gets out of hand with their mouth and harasses targeted employee’s. Instead of saying something that might be deemed as a possible threat in a verbal reaction to what an employer wrongfully said to you, it’s best to keep quiet and continue doing your job or walking past the person in the hallway. Ignoring your employer gives you strength as a person and HR professional, because now you know your employer-shift manager is a spiritually incompetent person who lacks maturity. Ignoring your employer when necessary gives you strength and allows you to keep the power they handed over to you when they spewed ignorance from their lips. Don’t hand back power to your employer or shift manager by saying something in reaction out of turn. All they’re waiting for is for you to say something wrong so they can wrongfully terminate you on the spot. Or call the police in secret while you’re working and have you arrested in front of everyone.
2. Increase your cardiovascular and exercise output at the gym to feel better about yourself – Truth is, obesity has a way of negatively impacting your mind, especially when you’re being harassed by some co-workers and your shift manager-employer in the workplace. When you work on bettering yourself externally, you feel better about yourself internally. Transformation is an inside job starting with the curation of your mind, heart, soul and body. When you strive for excellence to get organized by doing the transformation work out of inspiration or desperation and lose weight consistently by increasing your exercise and cardiovascular output, you’ll notice how your mind and body starts to feel healthier and lighter. Create a workout schedule and alternate days just for cardio so you can stay on track with your workout and goals. Getting back into a healthy mind and body requires patience and dedication. When you slowly start achieving your transformation fitness goals while enduring harassed by your employer or shift manager or co-workers simultaneously, you’ll learn to guard your heart by not wearing your heart and emotions on your shoulder. In other words, your self-improvement will help you become stronger to the point of brushing it off and using that negative energy from your workplace haters to improve yourself across the board. In the long run, you’ll be thankful they kept their foot on your neck by hating, because it helped you to be lightspeed ahead of your haters by achieving accelerated progress. If you don’t have anyone hating on you, how could you stay on track with striving for excellence to get organized physically, mentally and spiritually?
3. Eat healthy – A healthy diet promotes spiritual and emotional clarity. Consuming the wrong foods high in saturated fats and unhealthy cholesterol not only adds to unhealthy weight gain, but it negatively impacts the mind because you do more than walk around angry with the world. And unhealthy diet negatively impacts sleep, cognitive thinking, and lastly, blocks you from fitting in regular sized clothing. Eating right is more than just the state of mind and achieving a small waistline. It’s a health investment made in yourself that does more than reduce visits to your local doctor. Healthy eating helps you to increase self-confidence, maintain adequate energy levels to operate your side hustle, and helps you to plan ahead in life through strategic business objectives, possibly helping you achieve side hustle millionaire status in a shorter time span. The more healthy and fit your mind is through consuming a good diet, the more you increase your potential to get closer to being a future side hustle millionaire in entrepreneurship. This is why it pays to eat healthy across the board because when you get healthier, you also get stronger against your haters without uttering one word in a reaction.
4. Take St. John’s wort supplements on an empty stomach – Saint John’s Wort is a supplement claimed by many people to help improve your positive outlook on life. Positive thinking through believing in yourself and proper supplementation helps you to avoid feelings of harassment and less self worth, thus motivating you to be hopeful about the future and a side hustle you’re currently working on. Perform a search in your favorite search engine for more information on “St. John’s wort supplementation,” and perhaps after you research the benefits of taking St. John’s wort before starting your workday, you just might give it a go for yourself to help you ward off the haters.
5. Dress professionally most days of your workweek and sport good smelling fragrances in moderation – Coming to work dressed like the CEO instead of an employee burns heaps of coals on the minds of the workplace haters when you arrive at work dressed professionally. Being professionally dressed forces your haters and secret workplace admirers to see you in a certain light. They have no choice but to respect you despite the heat you. They want to be around you when you dress up. They want to stand nearby and smell your good smelling Cologne or perfume. They want to associate and speak warm and fuzzy words when you’re dressed like a business professional. This is because your image sends them a message that “I am somebody.” Dressing for success does more than make you feel good on the outside. Dressing consistently for success will inspire you to stay on track with building your side hustle, which is a plan B alongside your day job, and keep you on track for entrepreneurial success. Your professional image catches the attention of other entrepreneurs or government officials who want to offer you business contracts in the future. Dressing professionally often quietly forces workplace haters not only to respect you more, but you’ll also get more opportunities from people who you’ve never prospected for business before. Lastly, dressing professionally is also a good HR ploy as a new human resources professional, because now, you position yourself to be seen as a go-to person in the field of HR and respected by others.

 

‘Conclusion’

Co-workers and your employer / shift manager hate to see and think and know that you feel good about yourself and continue moving forward while you’re harassed. Their mantra is to break you spiritually, emotionally, physically to the point whereas you feel less about yourself.

 

Going against the grain by dressing better, well-mannered, letting your words be few, and staying up to snuff in productivity sends a quiet message that their wicked deeds and indeed strengthening your hand, giving YOU the winning advantage over your workplace haters. Staying quiet and neutral while moving forward also gives you strength to add to your character as a new HR professional, proving naysayers and debbie downers wrong about your character.

 

 

Victory is yours in the long run because you didn’t react the way they wanted you to after they threw those fiery darts to bring you and your mind down to their level. This is why it’s important to let your words be few and give no reaction as an HR professional striving to achieve excellence across the board. The battle is not yours!