The aftershock from the sabotage - March 2020

RUMOUR: “Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports”. William Shakespeare, Henry IV Part II

On 9 March 2020 - at home, after that creepy meeting, I emailed the employment lawyer. To quote:

“Read the whole context - find out about [the manager] and how I felt about how I was being treated and how this was handled. Was I distressed? Yes. Was I afraid? Yes. Did I feel no one cared that I was dealing with a personal issue that was none of their business and a bully violating my personal boundaries over and over, and in the end, after giving to everyone, I was self-absorbed according to her? Yes…

…I honestly didn't remember that text message, it had nothing to do with them. It was frustration and the fear I was feeling from being victimised and persecuted at my “caring” workplace. How much more violation and discrimination will I be subjected to?”

Oh and of course, there was, yet again, no duty of care from my employer in getting home safely, after this orchestrated gaslighting, privacy invasion and character assassination attempt. The entire experience has been surreal and frightening. I was really really distressed and frightened. I was traumatised. And I was left all alone to get myself home safely. Remember, the individual who orchestrated this was the National manager of employment relations and SAFETY. 

SHE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ORGANISATION’S WHS AND WELLBEING AT A NATIONAL LEVEL.

I couldn’t sleep from the shock and fear. At 3am, I sent another email to the solicitor regarding the incident. I couldn’t even recall the text messages from 6 months ago. I went back and looked up the entire communication with the campus minister, on my phone. Not only is it another example of denying me my right per policy, the HR associate director deceitfully accessed private communication relating to an incident irrelevant to my workplace complaint (if anything, it was following the pattern of behaviour of the manager I complained about). It was unethical, immoral, and serious negligence and reckless organisational behaviour.

To quote from my 3am email: 

“It is 3am. I can't sleep. I feel so violated. My privacy…has been accessed without my permission. It was not relevant to this complaint of bullying and taken completely out of context…. Evidently even private communication regarding myself and my family have been tapped into. But only the ones that suit their character assassination attempt… Since they violated my privacy so much and took one text message that was none of their business out of the entire context and irrelevant to what this is actually about, take the rest of the messages as evidence of my correspondence…”

It was this incident that angered my family and motivated them to make a formal complaint of their own. They had every right to make a formal complaint. How it was “handled” should be investigated by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA). But I’ve lost my trust in government agencies and public servants. I repeat my question: what do they all get paid, with our tax contribution, to do? 

I can’t read the advice from lawyers meant to represent me anymore. That in itself has become a trigger of trauma. It’s unfair and unacceptable advice. It is a disrespect to my years of hard work to earn my own degrees and hard work for two decades all for the benefit of this very university committed to the dignity of the human person and common good. 

WE HAVE A RIGHT TO A SAFE WORK ENVIRONMENT. WHERE ARE THE REGULATORS TO STOP THIS RECKLESS CONDUCT BY THE VERY STAFF IN A PCBU RESPONSIBLE FOR WHS? MISSING IN ACTION.

I rejected the advice of employment lawyer #2 and started searching for a more experienced and bigger law firm to become employment lawyer #3. 

This post is based on documents 37-39. It displays adverse action for requesting generally protected workplace rights, PRIVACY VIOLATIONS, discrimination, deception, malicious and vexatious conduct that condones engaging in WHS breaches and creating psychosocial hazards, not managing the risks as the PCBU is reasonably expected to do so, BY LAW.