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"What Workplace Harassment Says About Our Society"
Posted by: Kevin Costello
November 13, 2007

"The Journey to Justice" - Web Log of Employment Rights Lawyer Kevin M. Costello

In my last entry, I said I hoped that this blog reveals who I am as a person, because those who come to me for help should have complete faith in my ideals, as well as my skills. Here's the first of those peeks behind the green curtain; it has to do with why I do this work.

I know the title references the workplace and our society, but I ask you to bear with me as I start that topic in the past - my past. There's a reason I start this discussion thirty five years ago, in Brooklyn, NY.

My mother, who's no longer with us, was Jewish, and dad, who survives her, was Catholic. Nowadays, I suppose, you could call him an agnostic. Neither of them were much religious, and our house was one in which there was no formal discussions of, or resort to, deities. The religious culture was more for both of them about family traditions than belief.

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