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Most of us wouldn’t consider ourselves as untrustworthy, or with poor judgement. But would others agree if they knew everything there is to know about us, or perhaps even only the very worst?
At the end of last month, a damning report was published in the UK, revealing a toxic culture of racism, misogyny and bullying in the London Fire Brigade. It describes how a noose was put on a black firefighter’s locker, and speaks of women firefighters being harassed and sexually assaulted and being told by male colleagues “ we want to get you out of here, we don’t want you to be a fire officer “. A Muslim officer had bacon and sausages put in his coat pockets and a terrorist hotline sign posted on his locker. The findings are indicative of a kind of behaviour that most people would find unacceptable. But there is also a deeper significance to this behaviour, related to trust, judgement and decision making.
