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At the end of this blog entry I’ll link to The Muse article on Gaslighting At Work.
This is a real issue. Sorry to say that when it happens to you management won’t care. You’ll be left on your own to defend yourself.
Often being led to question your sanity. Only you’re not crazy.
In Working Assets: A Career Guide for Peers I devoted one chapter to Requesting a Reasonable Accommodation on the job when you have a disability.
The fact is abusers who gaslight often target individuals with emotional illnesses.
This is why I’m confident that what I wrote in the Reasonable Accommodation chapter of my career book was a realistic assessment of disclosure on the job. Listing the benefits and drawbacks in a nuanced considered way.
Gaslighting can take the form of a coworker not telling you that a staff meeting is being held. So you don’t show up when you’re supposed to.
Or they claim you didn’t give them a project when you know you did. Or telling you a deadline is farther away then it really is. So you miss the deadline.
In a coming blog entry I’m going to talk about the corollary tactic of harassment on the job.
Here’s the link to the Muse article on Gaslighting at Work:
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