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Violence in the Workplace

In: Stories to Tell Your Students

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  • M. Eileen Higgins

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Life in the office had been humming along nicely for months. My staff appeared to be happy and productive. Then one day there was a crisis. I was sitting in my office, and Jon,1 my managing editor, came to me quietly and in a fearful manner. He closed the door and said that there was a problem but he did not know what to do about it. It seems that an editorial assistant and excellent and popular employee of mine named Ryan had been in a romantic relationship with Jon’s friend, Emma, who worked in another department. Emma had decided to break it off with Ryan and told him so the night before. Ryan had not taken it well. Emma, who was in a neck brace from a car accident, came in to work as usual that morning. Ryan went to her office several times to try to talk with her, but she said she was busy and could not meet with him until lunch time.

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  • M. Eileen Higgins, 2011. "Violence in the Workplace," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Joan Marques & Satinder Dhiman & Jerry Biberman (ed.), Stories to Tell Your Students, chapter 1, pages 55-56, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37043-2_26
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230370432_26
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