Comments on: Are whistle blowers good or bad? http://www.coachbarrow.com/blog/2009/10/13/are-whistle-blowers-good-or-bad/ All problems exist in the absence of a good conversation Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:37:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dave http://www.coachbarrow.com/blog/2009/10/13/are-whistle-blowers-good-or-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-15396 Dave Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:05:41 +0000 http://www.coachbarrow.com/blog/2009/10/13/are-whistle-blowers-good-or-bad/#comment-15396 Several months back we had a similar issue where a really good client of ours (nice bloke and a good dentist) was similarly taken to task about some innocuous wording on his website. This landed him with GDC hearing, loads of cost and no doubt stress. He was also confident that a competitor had "done the dirty" on him but could not prove it. As you say, seems so unnecessary when a simple call to a fellow professional would have sufficed. Nasty......... Several months back we had a similar issue where a really good client of ours (nice bloke and a good dentist) was similarly taken to task about some innocuous wording on his website. This landed him with GDC hearing, loads of cost and no doubt stress. He was also confident that a competitor had “done the dirty” on him but could not prove it. As you say, seems so unnecessary when a simple call to a fellow professional would have sufficed. Nasty………

]]> By: albert camus http://www.coachbarrow.com/blog/2009/10/13/are-whistle-blowers-good-or-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-15367 albert camus Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:17:07 +0000 http://www.coachbarrow.com/blog/2009/10/13/are-whistle-blowers-good-or-bad/#comment-15367 I am not a dentist but rather an accountant who has worked a lot with dentists. It's not just your profession which has this bullshit. I have been subject to a similar incident having send around a circular to businesses in my area, one of which ended up at another accountants office. My problems were eventually resolved, but it cost me close to £100k in legal fees, a substantial loss of business to my practice (partly because my head was up my backside dealing with it and partly because word got around that have regulator trouble and so was suspect) and 4 years of stress. My regulator went from the original complaint through every aspect of my life and eventually tried to disapline me for not telling them the reason I had been discharged from the army when I started training as an accountant 13 years previously! (I had had a nervious breakdown) Why do "professionals" do this to each other? We all seem have the smallest of minds when dealing with our contemporaries! I am not a dentist but rather an accountant who has worked a lot with dentists.

It’s not just your profession which has this bullshit.

I have been subject to a similar incident having send around a circular to businesses in my area, one of which ended up at another accountants office.

My problems were eventually resolved, but it cost me close to £100k in legal fees, a substantial loss of business to my practice (partly because my head was up my backside dealing with it and partly because word got around that have regulator trouble and so was suspect) and 4 years of stress.

My regulator went from the original complaint through every aspect of my life and eventually tried to disapline me for not telling them the reason I had been discharged from the army when I started training as an accountant 13 years previously! (I had had a nervious breakdown)

Why do “professionals” do this to each other? We all seem have the smallest of minds when dealing with our contemporaries!

]]> By: Neil Harris http://www.coachbarrow.com/blog/2009/10/13/are-whistle-blowers-good-or-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-15315 Neil Harris Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:46:28 +0000 http://www.coachbarrow.com/blog/2009/10/13/are-whistle-blowers-good-or-bad/#comment-15315 Sounds incredibly unfair but it needs to be put down to experience and move on. Otherwise it's the old addage of wrestling with pigs.... Sounds incredibly unfair but it needs to be put down to experience and move on. Otherwise it’s the old addage of wrestling with pigs….

]]> By: james hamill http://www.coachbarrow.com/blog/2009/10/13/are-whistle-blowers-good-or-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-15298 james hamill Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:09:27 +0000 http://www.coachbarrow.com/blog/2009/10/13/are-whistle-blowers-good-or-bad/#comment-15298 Bit of a stinker this one. The person who has blown the whistle has almost certainly a major inferiority complex and nothing better to be doing. Really not worth wasting energy on. They had obviously never heard of 'give me it in the belly rather than the back' and maybe Sean could teach them something. I am sure the fact that the client is a good guy with a clean record will make it all ok. Bit of a stinker this one.
The person who has blown the whistle has almost certainly a major inferiority complex and nothing better to be doing. Really not worth wasting energy on. They had obviously never heard of ‘give me it in the belly rather than the back’ and maybe Sean could teach them something.
I am sure the fact that the client is a good guy with a clean record will make it all ok.

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