Workplace Harassment and Discrimination Chatbot

Have you been harassed or discriminated against in the workplace? Have you been unable to receive support or assistance from supervisors and agency directors to make this stop? Do you need to talk with someone, but find that no one is there for you? Do you need to document misconduct in your workplace?

Spot (https://talktospot.com/) is a simplistic online chatbot to report workplace harassment and discrimination without talking to a human. Spot asks a series of questions about the user's experience and incorporates those responses into a report.

There are 3 main steps to record and report your experience with Spot.

• Interview with Spot. Spot asks a series of questions about what you remember. You can answer or skip any question. The chat takes as little as 10 minutes or as long as you need.
• View the confidential record of your interview. Email yourself a time-stamped PDF version of the record and keep it safe. It can be used as high-quality evidence if you need it.
• Optional reporting. Create an optional report to send to your organization. Delete the parts of your interview that you don’t want to share. Spot sends reports from our email server, so you can choose to stay anonymous.

Is Spot the same a talking with a trained human psychologist? No, and it's not intended to replace mental health counseling and treatment. However, psychologists are broadly positive about the technology. Its cognitive interview questioning style aims to produce the best account of the situation. This documents the harassment and discrimination and lets you work through and record the details of the event(s).     (Circa, August 1, 2018)
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Last week I wrote: Raising PTSD and Workplace Mental Health Consequence Awareness - Agency misconduct has devastating effects on the targeted individual. Not only does one feel that their job is in jeopardy, they may also start to feel physically ill and emotionally harmed. This can create liabilities for the agency / employer, including:

    Occupational health and safety violations;
    Actions for negligence or intentional infliction of mental suffering; or
    Actions for defamation per se.

More importantly however a hostile workplace and agency misconduct results in direct harm to the targeted employee and general harm to the morale of the agency itself. Whether an employee is suffering mental health consequences as a result of a specific traumatic event, or as a result of a long-term problem within the agency, supervisors must ensure that resources are made available to these injured employees - and made available without recrimination or negative affect on the employee for seeking help.

The Spot Chatbot can help you document events in your workplace. Spot is currently free to use.