Fight or Flight at Work and It Is Not Always a Fair Fight | Rose Brown | TEDxCharlotte

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Every workplace has a handbook. A hotline. A promise that "you can come to me with anything." But what happens when that promise isn't kept? Drawing on doctoral research at Cornell University, law enforcement records, and federal government experience analyzing violent workplace incidents, this talk explores a truth most organizations don't want to face: our survival instincts don't clock out when we clock in. When people feel threatened, humiliated, or ignored at work and the system designed to protect them fails to respond, they don't just move on. They make a choice. Fight or flight. And not everyone fights the way we expect. This talk examines how workplace mistreatment escalates, why grievance systems that exist only on paper are dangerous, and how silence can transform everyday conflict into something far more serious. From retributive thinking in comment sections to patterns in real cases of workplace violence, the data reveal an urgent and uncomfortable truth: workplace safet

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