Employer's evidence regarding executive manager:
D4 P34 L11-12 wrote:
I understood it to mean that, you know, David was calling Jeff the bully.
D3 P80 L14-21 wrote:
So firstly, workplace bullying and Geoff Robinson, Geoff is a Brisbane-based executive who hired me into the business. He has, I would say, a tough managerial style. He was very wellknown for being a manager who he could sometimes be quite ruthless, quite frankly. We – my team certainly did see me getting on the wrong side of Geoff at times, so they potentially will have seen me under pressure taking some criticism from Geoff at time to time. But, you know, it’s a different thing to talk about workplace bullying. This was out in the open and it was direct,
D3 P80 L35-36 wrote:
He – he’s a tough – he’s a tough guy and he’s well-respected and well-known to be that way.
D4 P34 L41-44 wrote:
As I said, Jeff’s a tough manager. Jeff is known – is – is – I’m probably making him sound a little comical. But a lot of the technical team, you know, had been berated by Jeff at one point or another, which I suspect is why the reference to bullying is – is mentioned there.
D4 P79 L19-29 wrote:
COMMISSIONER: What do you mean by coaching?---Jeff had a very blunt way of telling you that you’d done the wrong thing, and I certainly remember, you know, a morning where I’d come in and Jeff was directing my people on a topic that was just so far into the details below an executive level, like, because Jeff enjoyed being around the IT stuff, and he quickly wanted me to stop doing what I was doing which was preparing for a customer meeting, and when I gave him I think a fairly fiery, “No, we’re not doing this now,” he, you know, pulled rank on me and told me that I wasn’t fit to lead with that attitude and my underlings had heard me getting told I wasn’t fit to lead. So this kind of a thing was not unusual, unfortunately. I found it quite difficult, and it’s likely that that kind of conduct is precisely what David would have known about. Certainly - - -
COMMISSIONER: Mr Truffet, are you – would you like us to adjourn for a few minutes, or - - -
APPELLANT: We’ve got to get through this. I’ll be – give me – just give me a minute. Sorry, it’s – it’s a sensitive topic. I’ll be right.
COMMISSIONER: You feeling okay?
Managment would have gone on about Jeff but the commissioner stopped her due to seeing me in distress.
Also both at the mentions and at the trial just broaching this suject and triggered meltdowns like the one you heared and the commission in each case stopped to proceedings.
The above quotes were managment was trying to defend/justify his conduct, when she was complaining and venting to me how bad his conduct was it was worse and in more detail, and over 6+ months.
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Yeah?---And it didn’t seem to be being resolved, so I was, in that discussion, explaining that, you know, an executive, regardless of whether they are the berating type or not – and I was remarking it’s not going to be fun - - -
Managment regarding myself:
D4 P30 L10-11 wrote:
I had reviewed the material and that I could see that he was acting to defend others at his own expense.
D3 P84 L44-46 wrote:
the underlying emphasis that David had was that he – you know, that he would kind of metaphorically take a bullet for people to defend them when he saw injustice and that he came off second best as a result
D3 P84 L2-6 wrote:
The information that David provided to me was that he had had colleagues at this past employer who had been bullied or – or unfairly treated and that the narrative he gave me was that he had defended them at his own expense so, like, at the cost of his position I think it was because he – he couldn’t, you know, bear to see them mistreated
And the effects were known for approximatly 3 months before my final meltdown at work.
about 3 months before final meltdown at work wrote:
things were not looking good on that Friday, to be honest. The crying was – you know, that was – he looked like he was in distress.
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the discussion at the coffee shop where I’d inadvertently, you know, pushed David to the point of crying, it was – you know, the reference to putting the mask back on was David’s. ... And I had apologised to David about that day because I’d – I felt bad about
upsetting him right before work, about a personal issue.
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He – at the time I – I was somewhat concerned about suicide risk because of the coming into Christmas period.
I beleive that not having a well known and well regarded ruthless executive manager of the berating type is a reasonable adjustment for not only Aspie's but NTs also.
22 Jan 2021, 5:57 am
as we don't have a like button on here.
