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#161 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 02 February 2018 - 08:52 AM

Look, I’m not sure she’s a bully. Does she go off the deep here and there? Sounds like it.

When I was a kid and a gas jockey I had a boss that would yell sometimes. It wasn’t very pleasant but you made sure you did not do the same thing wrong again. He could have had much better boss skills. He could have trained you for more than 15 minutes before throwing you in, for example. He could have expressed his satisfaction with good work behaviours more often than he did.

But I’m not sure he was a bully.

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#162 Mike K.

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Posted 02 February 2018 - 08:53 AM

A bully is a bully.

Should the class watch Mean Girls to see what it’s like to be a young woman in our society?
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#163 jonny

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Posted 02 February 2018 - 09:31 AM

anyway.....back to the topic....Should Ms May receive special treatment and a hall pass because she has different plumbing? Or is a bully simply a bully?

 

She's irrelevant, so how much time should we really spend on her?

 

Question though: Does workplace bullying hold the same weight or consequences as sexual misconduct?

 

I do think it is very bizarre that the Green Party would immediately jump to the lame defense that May is being unfairly targeted because she is a female? Jump straight to the gender card in this environment? Victim blaming? Roll out the ol' "outdated gender stereotypes" drivel. Really?

 

If a woman is a bullying jerkface, it's because she is a bullying jerkface - not because she is a woman and because people can't work under successful women.


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#164 jonny

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Posted 02 February 2018 - 09:34 AM

Look, I’m not sure she’s a bully. Does she go off the deep here and there? Sounds like it.

When I was a kid and a gas jockey I had a boss that would yell sometimes. It wasn’t very pleasant but you made sure you did not do the same thing wrong again. He could have had much better boss skills. He could have trained you for more than 15 minutes before throwing you in, for example. He could have expressed his satisfaction with good work behaviours more often than he did.

But I’m not sure he was a bully.

 

In today's work environment, which includes things like the relatively new Worksafe BC bullying and harassment guidelines, a lot of the workplace behaviour that was "normal" in the 1980's when you worked at this gas station is not acceptable nowadays. 


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Posted 05 February 2018 - 06:50 PM

She's done.

 

http://www.thestar.c...estigation.html

 

OTTAWA—Elizabeth May is asking Green party members to help cover the “new and unexpected” cost of a workplace bullying investigation into her own alleged behaviour — an investigation that she called for herself in the face of accusations from former staffers last week.

 

In an email to party members Monday, the longtime Green leader said the bullying accusations have cast “a shadow on our work,” and that she believed the party wouldn’t be credible again without an independent probe.


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#166 jonny

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Posted 05 February 2018 - 06:54 PM

They need to fundraise just to fund one little probe?

#167 Mike K.

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Posted 05 February 2018 - 07:34 PM

Oh man, with an article title like this I don't think bluefox is far off:

 

"Elizabeth May asks for donations to pay for cost of bullying investigation"


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#168 rjag

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Posted 05 February 2018 - 07:53 PM

She'll always have her hardcore group of bearded old men wearing anoraks and bike helmets to help her out


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Posted 05 February 2018 - 09:09 PM

They need to fundraise just to fund one little probe?

 

No, Elizabeth needs to paint herself as the true victim.


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Posted 06 February 2018 - 08:49 AM

No, Elizabeth needs to paint herself as the true victim.

 

Stalling tactic. She is hoping that by the time the probe is completed, everyone will have forgotten about it.


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#171 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 19 February 2018 - 07:28 AM

CBC, January 31st:

 

http://www.cbc.ca/ne...ation-1.4508997

 

The investigation will be carried out by a third party under the leadership of Sheila Block of the Toronto-based law firm Torys LLP.

According to a statement from the party, the inquiry will take from two to four weeks, after which a report will be released to the public.

 

That sounds like we should expect something this week or next.


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#172 rjag

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Posted 19 February 2018 - 07:53 AM

https://www.hilltime...tigation/133560

 

 

 

Email exchange shows Green leader May involved in choosing lawyer for her own investigation

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#173 Mike K.

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Posted 12 March 2018 - 02:33 PM

When is the bullying report expected to be released?


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#174 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 12 March 2018 - 05:41 PM

When is the bullying report expected to be released?

 

It was supposed to be 4 to 6 weeks after January 31st.


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#175 spanky123

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Posted 12 March 2018 - 05:52 PM

It was supposed to be 4 to 6 weeks after January 31st.

 

So never then?!


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#176 Mike K.

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Posted 23 March 2018 - 11:30 AM

May has been arrested at an anti-pipeline protest.

 

Two Members of Parliament have been arrested at the Kinder Morgan facility on Burnaby Mountain after they defied a court injunction that banned protesters from disrupting construction work at both Trans Mountain terminals.

 

Saanish-Gulf Islands MP and Green Party leader Elizabeth May, and Burnaby South NDP MP Kennedy Stewart joined several dozen protesters and marched to the gate of the Kinder Morgan tank farm. https://globalnews.c...-kinder-morgan/


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#177 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 23 March 2018 - 11:35 AM

So never then?!

 

It's delayed by a few weeks now, I guess.


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#178 jonny

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Posted 23 March 2018 - 11:37 AM

I wonder how May and Stewart got to the protest. Surely they did not fly in from Ottawa and then drive to Burnaby. 



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Posted 23 March 2018 - 11:44 AM

I loved this post from May 10th:

 

2018-03-23 12_41_45-Elizabeth May (@ElizabethMay) _ Twitter.png

 

The ferry she took runs on diesel refined at the Parkland refinery. The diesel comes from "tarsand" diluted bitumen that traveled to Burnaby on Trans Mountain Line 1.



#180 Dr.Strangelove

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Posted 23 March 2018 - 04:52 PM

She'll score brownie points from her supporters for getting arrested. They will view the arrest as a Sacrifice from their party's leader who held her ground and didn't back down.

 

Politically, likely a good move on her part with the federal election coming up next year.


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