March 9th, 2009, 12:26 pm
Speaking on the sympathetic side, I wonder how often banks set up arrangements with outside psych professionals to give their staff members a neutral place to discuss things that are going on in the work place.I hear of such things, but for obvious reasons they are not trusted.Even sigining up for counselling is seen as something you would not like to have on your record.I suspect that I'm the nearest thing many people have to a counsellor, a role for which I've received no training at all. My social circle includes some psychs (and one person who has a formal certificate to say he is sane), and it does seem to me that "coaching", "team building" and "time management" type stuff is both easier to sell and less embarassing to buy.Medical doctors are of course under an ethical obligation not to share your confidential information, but as we all know their employers can freely hand it to the banks, regulators or peple they meet in bars with no real fear of any comeback.I get to hear of various people's view that something is not right in their firm. It is in the nature of my job to hear more "issues" than most people.A common thread is that there is no one in the firm they feel they can talk to without serious risk to their careers. Having seen "issues" myself when I had a real job, I know exactly how they feel. For a couple, I've felt it appropriate to affect an introduction to some reassuringly expensive lawyers, but in most cases that is not appropriate, and frankly the best thing to do has been to put distance between themselves and the fallout by leaving.But...Of course at the moment, leaving for another job is not as easy as it was, though of course just leaving is really trivial...As we have seen, the regulators are not only ineffective at protecting whistle blowers, but are seen as actually working for the bad guys. In some ways they are like the Chicago or New York police forces. On TV and films, I'd guess 50% of them are seen as the sort of person that if you report a serious crime will arrange your murder to protect their gangland bosses. That is of course a grotesque exaggeration, but hands up those who would without any fear report wrongdoing to a regulator ?
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DominicConnor on March 8th, 2009, 11:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.