{"id":8798,"date":"2023-11-22T09:38:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T14:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/?page_id=8798"},"modified":"2024-06-03T11:37:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T15:37:16","slug":"toxictales","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/toxictales\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxic Tales: Inside NYS Agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8571 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/TOXIC-RALLY-SIGNS-ALL-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"End Bullying\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/TOXIC-RALLY-SIGNS-ALL-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/TOXIC-RALLY-SIGNS-ALL.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Bad managers result in bad services for New Yorkers.<\/strong>\u00a0As a union, we\u2019ve seen how the most well-intentioned procedures and reforms meant to improve the delivery of public services don\u2019t have the desired effect when implementation is left to incompetent managers. Working for a bully involves repeated and unreasonable actions intended to humiliate and otherwise demean employees.<\/p>\n<p>On this page, we will share the stories of hard-working PEF members who have been intimidated, undermined and otherwise degraded while working for New York State. We have hidden their faces and masked their voices to protect them from retaliation by management.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Toxic Tales: Inside NYS Agencies\" src=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/showcase\/10815148\/embed\" width=500 height=625 allowfullscreen frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you have a toxic tale to share, please get in touch with us at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Communicator@pef.org\">Communicator@pef.org<\/a>. We will work with you to share your story in the most sensitive way and promise to safeguard your identity. New York State workers have been silent for too long and we are determined to give them a voice! Together we can clean up the toxic work environments that are far too common inside New York State agencies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Bad managers result in bad services for New Yorkers.\u00a0As a union, we\u2019ve seen how the most well-intentioned procedures and reforms meant to improve the delivery of public services don\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8798","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Toxic Tales: Inside NYS Agencies - PEF<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/toxictales\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Toxic Tales: Inside NYS Agencies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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