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[ginger_dragon]

Yesterday I went on crisis therapy, something my work has provided due to the death of my workmate. We talked about him on how I feel about is and then we talked about my work and how stressful it is. What we talked about is of course confidential, but she is to give recommendations on how to help us feel better about this. She had already talked

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[amaebi]

...I don't suppose it's any comfort to you, over this workplace stuff, to think of yourself as Preparing for Normal US Workplace Conditions in Case You Later Move to the US....

[ginger_dragon]

Not much as I decided a long time ago that US isn't a country I'd like to emigrate to... :-)

[hirtzenocker]

I just read what amaebi wrote. Exactly correct, I'm afraid.

[hirtzenocker]

You're lucky to be in Sweden, not America. The majority of the American workforce has no health (especially emotional/mental) care to speak of, and the general concept of checking a workplace for fitness is to make sure there are no toxic chemicals in food-prep areas, and the toilets work. Calling a place psychologically unfit just isn't done here. For a place like yours, a counsellor might be brought in to see if anyone needs to be recommended to a someone else for trauma treatment, but usually post-traumatic event care is very basic, if at all, and with little care for general morale--they tend to focus on the event only. If your workplace were here, that catastrophe would probably be full-blown by now.

I really hope things get sorted quickly, and put to rights.

[alysbowie]

*hugs*

I hope everything gets sorted at your work, and that the workplace is made fit.

I also hope you're feeling better soon. I've never had bronchitis, but I know it's not fun :(

[chthonya]

That sounds nasty.

Thankfully, the EU regulations make UK workplace safety a bit saner than it would otherwise be, but the stress is very much on the physical. There are guidelines about stress, and I've worked for companies that have anti-stress policies (well one, and it was employee-owned so not at all typical), but I don't know how one would go about enforcing anything. It's hard enough to prove physical negligence, at least as far as offices go.

There's quite a subjective element to it, too. I'm erring on the side of thinking that I'm more susceptible to psychologically toxic workplaces. I made the mistake once of staying in one so long that it completely undermined my confidence in my own ability to work well or to move jobs, and I ended up losing my health, my job and my home. It's just not worth putting up with that sh*t. And, probably not co-incidentally, the director of that particular organisation was from New York.

Take care of yourself - cat therapy works wonders!

*hugs*