Bullying

I found one of my staff in tears yesterday. She is doing a bit of work for another larger charity that we are getting paid for - its a way for us to earn some extra money. Unfortunately the worker she has been dealing with at the other charity has been extremely rude to her - mainly by email. You don't really expect people working in the charity world to behave like this, but unfortunately there are a number of people in charities around our City who have a reputation for behaving like this.

Unfortunately we can't really pull out of this piece of work now without causing problems for ourselves as I am sure the other charity would rubbish us locally. And being a larger and much better connected charity this would not be good for us. Also I am sure if we complained about this worker that could create problems for us. So instead we have made a decision that I will do all the communication with this rude worker. I shouldn't have to do this, but there seems no other way of tackling this without possibly causing us some problems. Luckily this extra piece of work should be finished soon.