Screw the Hierarchy

Screw the Hierarchy

By Deb FalzoiSociety & CultureBusinessEducationSelf-ImprovementRelationshipsCareers
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Screw the Hierarchy episodes

  • How effective sexual harassment law has been at disrupting the status quo
    How effective has sexual harassment law been at disrupting (never dismantling) the social hierarchies at work? In this episode, I build on last week's episode about the history of sexual harassment law in the US and its progress to talk about what's REALLY happening with sexual harassment law now. What does it do? Who's benefited, and in what way?
    If you've been abused at work and would like to share your story anonymously, email [email protected].
    If you feel like you need more help, I have a free guide to recovery steps at http://www.dignitytogether.org/targets and a signup for daily boosts through your inbox at the same place.
    Facebook: @HierarchyPodcast
    Twitter: @ScrewHierarchy
    21 min
  • What we can learn from the evolution of sexual harassment law to address the power structures that benefit white men
    We know that sexual harassment law has advanced workers' rights, especially for women. But what has it done — and not done — to move the needle for women? How is it enabling those writing the rules to keep themselves in power to cling onto the status quo?
    Let's look to Yale Law School's Reva B. Siegel's short history of sexual harassment from her 2003 book Directions in Sexual Harassment Law to get a sense of what work was like before the Supreme Court interpreted Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include sexual harassment as discrimination based on sex in the late 1980s. With each step, we'll look at how the history gives us insights for the need for general workplace anti-abuse legislation, the Dignity At Work Act. Workplace abuse has a discriminatory impact on women, non-white workers, and low-wage workers.
    If you've been abused at work and would like to share your story anonymously, email [email protected].
    If you feel like you need more help, I have a free guide to recovery steps at http://www.dignitytogether.org/targets and a signup for daily boosts through your inbox at the same place.
    Facebook: @HierarchyPodcast
    Twitter: @ScrewHierarchy
    22 min
  • How a Kroger manager allegedly bullied employee Evan Seyfried to suicide
    On March 9, 2021, Evan Seyfried, 40, took his own life due to extreme and brutal harassment from two store managers and co-workers at a Kroger location in Milford, OH, where he was employed for 19 years.
    Kroger failed to protect Evan.
    Here is his story from organizer of Justice for Evan and family friend Jana Murphy.
    Read the lawsuit:
    https://www.scribd.com/document/515480124/Lawsuit-Kroger-manager-drove-employee-to-suicide?fbclid=IwAR3B65vezIRJcX5AGMtsx2ojnWDuFBYd2n45SctjqzMGRu1nh000TygJqKI
    Companies Kroger owns:
    Baker’s
    City Market
    Dillons
    Food 4 Less
    Foods Co
    Fred Meyer
    Fry’s
    Gerbes
    Harris Teeter
    King Soopers
    Jay C Food Store
    Kroger
    Pay-Less Super Markets
    QFC
    Ralphs
    Smith’s Food and Drug
    Like Justice for Evan:
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/justiceforevanseyfried
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/justiceforevan
    #JusticeforEvan
    If you've been abused at work and would like to share your story anonymously, email [email protected].
    If you feel like you need more help, I have a free guide to recovery steps at http://www.dignitytogether.org/targets and a signup for daily boosts through your inbox at the same place.
    Facebook: @HierarchyPodcast
    Twitter: @ScrewHierarchy
    1 hr 30 min
  • How "yes" people enable serial abusers — part of the workplace abuse playbook
    This week, the New York state attorney general released a 165-page report on Governor Andrew Cuomo's misdeeds, including how those misdeeds were allowed to fester: through his "yes" people, the loyalists who protected him. In this week's episode, I talk about how "yes" people enable and even embolden serial abusers and how they're part of the abuser playbook of abusing power above the rules while vilifying those who speak up.
    If you've been abused at work and would like to share your story anonymously, email [email protected].
    If you feel like you need more help, I have a free guide to recovery steps at http://www.dignitytogether.org/targets and a signup for daily boosts through your inbox at the same place.
    Facebook: @HierarchyPodcast
    Twitter: @ScrewHierarchy
    12 min
  • A federal whistleblower from the U.S. Border Patrol reveals what it's like to expose corruption
    Going to work shouldn't mean witnessing blatant violations of moral code and suffering from demeaning treatment. But that's what going to work means for thousands of workers, including former U.S. Border Patrolwoman Deliris Montanez. In this week's episode, Deliris reveals why she spoke up and what it's like to be a federal whistleblower when most ways to expose it are closed doors.
    If you've been abused at work and would like to share your story anonymously, email [email protected].
    If you feel like you need more help, I have a free guide to recovery steps at http://www.dignitytogether.org/targets and a signup for daily boosts through your inbox at the same place.
    Facebook: @HierarchyPodcast
    Twitter: @ScrewHierarchy
    58 min
  • Former NFL cheerleader Lacy Fields reveals what it was like to go up against the NFL
    When a business owner decides to pay a worker for their time and effort, that business owner understands they will make money off that time and effort. It's part of doing business. But what happens when that business rakes in billions of dollars per year and uses some of their employees as welfare? I'm talking about the NFL exploiting its cheerleaders by paying them less than minimum wage for required gigs and practices. In this week's episode, I talk with Lacy Fields, a former Oakland Raiders cheerleader who exposed the exploitation of NFL cheerleaders nationwide that catapulted a national fight against wage theft as featured in the documentary "A Woman's Work: The NFL's Cheerleader Problem." Lacy reveals what it was like to go up against the giant, what she sacrificed, and how she became a feminist.
    If you've been abused at work and would like to share your story anonymously, email [email protected].
    If you feel like you need more help, I have a free guide to recovery steps at http://www.dignitytogether.org/targets and a signup for daily boosts through your inbox at the same place.
    Facebook: @HierarchyPodcast
    Twitter: @ScrewHierarchy
    33 min
  • How female minority nurses described their work cultures in hospitals
    In January 2021, researcher Ekta Srinivasa, RN, PhD revealed her findings of her study on experiences of self-reported bullying In female minority nurses within acute care hospital workplace settings. Her findings: employers channel discrimination through bullying acts and align with those willing to get rewarded to play the game, leaving patient safety on the line when competent nurses speak up.
    If you've been abused at work and would like to share your story anonymously, email [email protected].
    If you feel like you need more help, I have a free guide to recovery steps at http://www.dignitytogether.org/targets and a signup for daily boosts through your inbox at the same place.
    Facebook: @HierarchyPodcast
    Twitter: @ScrewHierarchy
    21 min
  • How to shift your mindset so you can put your values first
    Looking at life in the long-term can help us have agency and create lives according to our own values. In this episode, I talk about how we can get altitude on our lives, as career coach Liz Ryan talks about, so we can feel fulfilled and content rather than obedient and less than.
    If you've been abused at work and would like to share your story anonymously, email [email protected].
    If you feel like you need more help, I have a free guide to recovery steps at http://www.dignitytogether.org/targets and a signup for daily boosts through your inbox at the same place.
    Facebook: @HierarchyPodcast
    Twitter: @ScrewHierarchy
    16 min
  • How employers in health care management funneled sexism through bullying
    Joyce was a solid performer in health care management when she found herself suffering consequences for those who sexual harassed. But not just once. In this episode, hear how her employers in her industry funneled sexism through bully acts — and what advice she has for other targets of abuse at work.
    If you've been abused at work and would like to share your story anonymously, email [email protected].
    If you feel like you need more help, I have a free guide to recovery steps at http://www.dignitytogether.org/targets and a signup for daily boosts through your inbox at the same place.
    Facebook: @HierarchyPodcast
    Twitter: @ScrewHierarchy
    47 min
  • 38 targets of workplace abuse share their stories and insights with legislators to demand change

    Speaking out against workplace abuse can involve risk: risk of losing one's job, of losing future opportunities, and of losing relationships with those who benefit from the status quo. It can also involve finding your voice again, inspiring others to do the same, and taking your power back by sharing YOUR side of the story and your insights as to why workplace abuse is an epidemic.

    On June 22, 38 advocates signed up to verbally testify in front of the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development. 

    In this episode, I share highlights of their stories to inspire you to join the national movement to say our dignity at work matters. Visit http://www.DignityAtWorkAct.org to get involved. 


    If you've been abused at work and would like to share your story anonymously, email [email protected]. 

    If you feel like you need more help, I have a free guide to recovery steps at http://www.dignitytogether.org/targets and a signup for daily boosts through your inbox at the same place. 

    Facebook: @HierarchyPodcast 
    Twitter: @ScrewHierarchy

    1 hr

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The podcast about the social hierarchies that keep white men in power positions at work, most of the rest of us out of them, and what we can do about it.

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