Cindi Burkey's traffic reports

can be heard on the following Southern California radio stations:

KOLA 99.9 Classics from the 60's, 70's and 80's; San Bernardino/Los Angeles, afternoons
Talkradio 790 KABC Los Angeles, evenings

103.3 The Vibe, Santa Barbara
K-Mix 106.3(excellent music), Antelope Valley

The Edge, Antelope Valley (The AV's Rock Station)

Cindi Burkey with Mike Sakellarides' Traffic Class at Fullerton College
(from LA Radio.com)

"Between 1963 and 1974, Dr. Stanley Milgram conducted a series of experiments that would become one of the most famous social psychology studies of the 20th century. His focus was how average people respond to authority, and what he revealed stunned and disturbed people the world over." That famous experiment was recently replicated.
The question: what does it take for people to challenge those in authority, if those in authority are harming people?

THE PRICE OF REPORTING THE REAL NEWS FOR A "NEWS" CHANNEL
or,
The Immolation of Ashleigh Banfield

Thousands of workers witness wrongdoing at work. Most remain silent. They decide that it's not their concern; that nothing they can do would improve things, or they can't afford problems at work. Other workers choose to speak out. They "blow the whistle" on unethical and illegal conduct in the workplace. Whistleblowing means disclosing information that a worker believes is evidence of illegality, gross waste, gross mismanagement, abuse of power, or substantial and specific danger to the public health and safety. Whistleblower actions may save lives, money, or the environment. However, instead of praise for the public service of "committing the truth" whistleblowers are often targeted for retaliation, harassment, intimidation, demotion, dismissal and blacklisting.

"• Farlie's Law: If in one’s professional career one reaches a position way above what is merited, then one can only maintain this position or progress further by surrounding oneself with incompetent people.

• An Extension to Farlie's Law: If the people surrounding you are not incompetent, filter their every communication so that they appear incompetent and that you've rescued them."

An FAA whistleblower's account: HOW ORGANIZATIONAL BULLYING/SUPPRESSION OF FREE SPEECH THREATENS PUBLIC SAFETY. "The only people that get promoted up the chain are the ones who play the game and don't ruffle any feathers." Flying The Deadly Skies ... april 2006

Two FBI Whistleblowers Confirm Illegal Wiretapping of Government Officials and Misuse of FISA

An Inconvenient Patriot

"95 % of organizations are authoritarian, meaning: they do not share power with employees. This is a scientific fact measured at thousands of workplaces by the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. Injustice is part of authoritarian work structures. Expecting justice is a thinking error. Healing from past injustices and preventing (as much as possible) new injustices is the way to go.

Most working people have not learned this basic truth about work, because it is withheld in school and by society generally: that each working person when employed by someone else will be working in an authoritarian environment (being given orders without consultation)---and that means each person must learn how to minimize being mistreated----without blaming oneself (maintaining self-respect) for having to "cow-tow" in order to survive a basically unjust situation. This is a tough, tough learning."

"Most of us would not imagine any correspondence between conceiving an ethnic genocide and, say, guiltlessly lying to one's boss about a coworker. But the psychological correspondence is not only there; it is chilling. Simple and profound, the link is the absence of the inner mechanism that beats up on us, emotionally speaking, when we make a choice we view as immoral, unethical, neglectful, or selfish.

"........Psychopaths seem to have in abundance the very traits most desired by normal persons. The untroubled self-confidence of the psychopath seems almost like an impossible dream and is generally what "normal" people seek to acquire when they attend assertiveness training classes. In many instances, the magnetic attraction of the psychopath for members of the opposite sex seems almost supernatural."
SOCIOPATHS

"....At-will" workers really don't have any employment rights. We can be terminated for any reason, or for no reason at all." Weyco forbids its employees to smoke....anywhere.

ARE WHISTLEBLOWERS WHO WORK FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT PROTECTED BY THE 1ST AMENDMENT? What the Supreme Court has to say

Why Laws to Protect Whistleblowers Don't Work

"There are many subtle ways for employers to undermine employees without providing clear-cut evidence of reprisals. Rumours and ostracism are two of the most common responses encountered by whistleblowers but are virtually impossible to document. Petty harassment is also potent. It might mean such minor things as unavailability of a company car, awkward rosters, slowness in processing claims, or requests for excessive documentation. Ostracism itself can cause the equivalent of petty harassment, as a worker is denied access to everyday information needed to do the job efficiently. At a more serious scale are job reassignments that reduce or increase work demands, either setting up the employee for failure or making the job tedious; in both cases it is often easy to camouflage the changes as necessary due to changes in the work environment or to a more general organisational restructuring. Ironically, it can be more difficult for an employee to deal with subtle undermining than with a more obvious attack such as demotion or dismissal. Subtle harassment can lead some employees to blame themselves whereas blatant attacks are more readily understood as reprisals."

FAQ: Employment Law; What are an Employee's Rights in the Workplace?

Abusiveness fascinates, seduces, and terrifies. We sometimes envy abusive individuals because we imagine them endowed with a superior strength that will always make them winners. They do, in fact, know how to naturally manipulate and this appears to give them the upper hand whether in business or politics. Fear makes us instinctively gravitate towards them rather than away from them: survival of the fittest. The most admired individuals are those who enjoy themselves the most and suffer the least. In any case, we don't take their victims, who seem weak and dense, seriously, and under the guise of respecting another's freedom, we become blind to potentially serious situations.
Stalking the Soul: Emotional Abuse and the Erosion of Identity
Source: Marie-France Hirigoyen

case law: screaming at employees (California)

COMPREHENSIVE web site on status-blind workplace harassment, lots of links and resources.

"mobbing"---conflict within groups; whistleblowing

BLAMING THE VICTIM: "when a scapegoat is chosen, he or she is really a stand-in or diversion so that people don't have to confront the problem inherent in the work system. Everyone participates in scapegoating the one individual in order to avoid focusing on the deeper systems problem." -chauncy hare

workplace abuse: the missing link to child abuse

non-sexual harassment at work

Bullying--awareness of at-work harassment in the U.S. and overseas

"-75% of the time, women are victims (of workplace harrassment). But females target other women 84% of the time."
[US Hostile Workplace Survey, 2000]

are you being harrassed at work? how can you tell---maybe you're just thin-skinned, and need to get a sense of humor? if you are being harrassed... do you have any recourse?

intrigued? listed here: some English literature on conflict and psychological violence in the workplace.

DO YOU WORK FOR A PSYCHOPATH?

My Original Blog--May 2005 (long and rambling, i'll warn you)

Another ex-KCRW staffer's story
interestingly, this article contains yet another event in which ruth insists a person is stuttering and stammering on the air

Yet ANOTHER ex-KCRW staffer's story--Sandra Tsing Loh's commentary on getting fired by Ruth

Metafilter public comments on the firing of Joe Frank, and Ruth Seymour's management tactics

One of many bloggers, commenting on KCRW firings

contact: sendme@earthlink.net

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