Harassment Journal: Bullying

Workplace harassment rarely starts loud: a remark in front of the team, a task taken away for no reason, an email nobody ever answers. Each incident sounds minor on its own. A few weeks later you no longer remember exactly when it happened or who was there.

Harassment Journal is an incident log for Android, a work journal for what goes wrong with your boss or colleagues. For each incident you create an entry. It holds a short title, the type of incident, your description, the place or context and the witnesses by name or initials. Context can be the office, the cafeteria or an online meeting. The app sets the time itself when you save. You take a photo directly with the camera. Instead of writing, you can record your own spoken account of up to 60 seconds. Single incidents turn into a harassment log in the order they happened.

BULLYING AT WORK, A TOXIC BOSS OR EXCLUSION
You assign each incident to one of eight types. They are verbal insult, exclusion, false accusations, harassment through tasks, threat, physical harassment, cyberbullying by chat or email, and other. Maybe a manager puts you down in front of others, a situation people often describe as a bully boss. Maybe colleagues talk over you in every meeting, or the team pushes you out step by step. Either way, you write it down factually, in your own words. Workplace bullying and a hostile work environment, often called a toxic workplace, are hard to describe from memory. A dated record is easier to talk about.

HOW TO DOCUMENT HARASSMENT AT WORK
In the history you find any entry by search and filter by type and time period. The statistics show as bars how many incidents happen per month and which type comes up most often. They also show which people and witnesses are named most. A feeling of "this keeps happening" becomes a pattern you can show someone.

With Premium, Harassment Journal creates a PDF report from your entries. You share it yourself, for example with HR, a counselor or an attorney, when the topic is workplace harassment. The report starts with an overview by month, type and people. Then each incident follows with time, description, place, witnesses and seal. Photos appear in the PDF report with their incident, and before sharing you choose full or reduced quality. If an incident has a voice recording, the report notes that one exists.

When you save, each entry gets a timestamp seal (SHA-256). When you open it later, the app shows whether it has been changed since it was saved. The seal is a check for yourself, not proof for anyone else.

GOOD TO KNOW
You do not need an account. The app stores entries, photos and recordings on your device; you pass on a PDF report or a backup yourself. There is no automatic backup. With Premium, the data backup exports everything to an unencrypted file that you can restore later. An optional four-digit PIN locks the app. After five wrong attempts it stays locked for five minutes. Screenshots of the app are blocked. The app shows ads from Google AdMob, loaded over the internet. Where the law requires it, the app asks for your consent on first launch.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Should I keep a log before an HR complaint?
Writing incidents down close to when they happen gives you dates, names and details to refer to. Whether and how to raise a complaint is your decision, ideally with advice.

Premium is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. It lets you share the PDF report, export and import the data backup, and removes the ads.

If you face workplace harassment, you can write down dates, names and what happened in which order. With Harassment Journal you have them in one place, incident by incident.

Harassment Journal is a documentation tool and does not replace legal advice.