Zen and the Difficult Workplace: Transcend Your Boss

Effective strategies for coping in a difficult workplace. People who work for abusive employers suffer potentially severe health-endangering stress that gets worse the longer it continues. Many are driven to quit or are fired. Zen theory and tools offer a proven path to stress relief and can be adapted easily to the workplace. Zen buys time for workers to effectively pursue an internal complaint, find another job or to collect evidence for a future unemployment compensation claim or lawsuit. Moreover, Zen helps targets avoid responding to abuse in an impulsive and self-defeating way. Targets gain insight into their problems and new focus to achieve a constructive solution. The author, a judge and attorney, also provides concrete advice on how best to respond to workplace abuse. One in every three or four workers is bullied on the job. Be proactive. Save your job and your sanity!

Patricia G. Barnes, J.D., is the author of Surviving Bullies, Queen Bees & Psychopaths in the Workplace (2012) and writes a syndicated employment law blog, When the Abuser Goes to Work, at abusergoestowork.com. She counsels employers and workers about how to handle workplace abuse, bullying and discrimination.Her other books include CQ's Desk Reference on American Criminal Justice and CQ's Desk Reference on American Courts.