Hostile Work Environment -- 10 Things Bully Bosses do to Cause Lawsuits (Part II)
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6. “Papering” an Employee's File
(This is Part II of the Hub "10 Things Bully Bosses do to Cause Lawsuits." If you missed Part I, you can find it HERE.)
The sixth mistake of managers that causes companies to lose lawsuits is papering an employee’s file. Lots of managers hear the mantra “document, document, document, document everything.” I tell that to supervisors when I provide training about discipline done the right way. And when I leave my day job and advise employees as “the Undercover Lawyer” I also tell the employees to document everything. But some managers seem to be under the impression that if they generate 100 pages of disciplinary actions against an employee then there is little chance the manager will get sued, and zero chance the manager will get sued and lose.
Such a manager could not be more wrong.
You see, despite the constant mantra of “document everything,” it is possible for a manager to over document, especially if you have years of positive performance appraisals in your file. What frequently happens is that an employee receives a steady stream of positive appraisals from one manager. Then that manager retires, is transferred or gets promoted. Then a new manager comes in and is red hot to show the world what a great manager he or she is. Suddenly the new boss is putting a steady stream of documents into your file about everything little thing you do the slightest bit different than what the new boss wants (and the new boss can't explain what he or she wants when you ask). And then, bam, the employee is fired.
Looking back on the employee's documented history with the company shows a long paper trail of positive evaluations and no performance problems, followed by an intense burst of negative documentation, and then a sudden termination. This pattern does not look good for the employer or the new manager.
Courts and juries see right through this pattern. It's obvious that the “manger” can't manage at all, but is just some bully who is determined to get rid of you. This new manager/bully is really just “building” a case against you by over-documenting trumped up infractions and sticking every possible negative piece of paper into your file. There are strategies for stopping these gung-ho bully bosses before you lose your job, but all those strategies are outside the scope of this Hub and take up so much space that I put them into a book. For the purposes of this article, you should know that “papering your file” is not some fool proof plan a bully manager can use against you. In fact, it's not a smart move at all and will only help you, the employee, prove that the real problem was the new manager and not your (proven over the longer term) ability to do a good job.
7. Being Rude and Mean Spirited
Yes, being rude and mean actually is a bad thing for bosses. I know it sure doesn't appear that way to many people, who feel like bully bosses get rewarded by company executives for ruining the careers of regular people. But consider this: the bully boss does not come across well in court.
An employer can have the best case in the world, but if on the witness stand a supervisor comes across as a rude, insensitive jerk, then the jury simply will not want to depart from the golden rule. The jury will not do unto you what they would not a jury to do unto them. In other words, the jury is not going to want to bring back a verdict where the jerk wins and the kind, every day employee loses everything.
Juries will almost always side with the person with the most sympathetic story, who also comes across as being honest and not fake. And it doesn't matter all that much what the law says, and I say that as a lawyer.
I know this happens. The lawyers on both sides know juries act this way. That's why defense lawyers put on seminars for managers and tell the audience “Sure, it's not illegal to be a jerk, but it's not smart. Your employees can't sue you for being rude, but if you are rude it will help them win the discrimination and harassment claims that they can sue you for.
So look at this point and spin it around; an angry vindictive employee will not get the sympathy of the jury, even if that worker WAS discriminated against. That’s why it’s so crucial that you always come across as the reasonable, level headed employee who was trying all along to do the right thing. Even if your boss isn't taking this advice (especially if you boss isn't taking this advice) you should.
8. Careless Statements to EEOC Investigators
Number eight in the manager mistakes that cause employers to lose lawsuits is careless statements to EEOC investigators. Yes, managers get interviewed by EEOC investigators after you file a claim with the EEOC. Managers often will spout off, vent to the investigator and say all kinds of careless things. You can bet that you can use those against your manager later in court. It’s a great strategy, a way to see what your boss's “side of the story” is, and get your boss respond to you before your boss brings a defense attorney in for help. You will get an unfiltered version of your boss's story, and you can use it against him or her later on in court, or immediately in the EEOC case.
This is a secret way to get raw facts out of your employer, and you should use it to your advantage. And again, this trick is so powerful that defense attorneys go around training their clients to be really careful, to not respond to the EEOC on their own, and to always get company's attorneys involved early. If you boss is cocky enough to believe that he or she is always in the right, then your boss may be just the type to make all kinds of statements to an EEOC investigator that having nothing to do with your performance and make it look like you were terminated or retaliated against for nebulous, suspect reasons like “not a team player,” “attitude,” or “she just wasn't a good fit for our culture.”
9. Firing Employees Too Fast
This is one mistake that managers often don't realize they are making, even if all the employees can see that it's a mistake as plain as the sun in the summer sky. The boss doesn't try to improve the employee’s performance (in other words, doesn't “manage”) and it makes the boss appear insensitive and potentially discriminatory. Employers who take a long time to try to improve a negative situation with an employee, and who can show gradually increasing discipline over that time period are the ones who will look better in court. Juries like it when it looks like the employer went well beyond the minimum legal requirements and tried everything possible to “save” the employer-employee relationship, but despite the boss's training and coaching the employee just refused to do the work. THAT is the protocol which good defense lawyer train managers to follow. But again, the reason “firing employees too fast” is on this list is because it is one of the things bosses most frequently get wrong.
While “at-will” employment is still the rule (“at-will” meaning it’s not illegal to terminate at any time), firing employees too fast does make employers look bad. So if you’re someone who was fired right away when a new boss came into your department, or you were fired with no real warning, then that will be one strike against the company. You should explore other areas where you might be able to build on that foundation and develop a good case that you termination was not, in fact, legal even under the “at-will” employment rule.
10. Lack of Legal knowledge
Over and over managers, especially the bullying type of bosses, who are not close to HR think they know the law. But actually they don’t. For instance, the ADA changed dramatically as of January 1, 2009. The COBRA laws also changed dramatically. The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is another very powerful tool that bosses and even H.R. people don't completely understand.
So if you take the time to learn your workplace rights and master the laws that your boss doesn't understand, then YOU will be the one who is doing what defense attorneys say the managers should do. It's you, and not your boss, that will be way ahead in the game.
What happens when a bullying boss doesn't know the law? In that situation your attorney will be able to argue to the jury that the company should know the law. The company (meaning your boss) will be held to a high standard, which is why the company's own lawyers are saying “If you don't want to lose in court you need to learn the law.” Employers should be constantly keeping up on what the new laws are and how to apply them. This is not unfair, it’s just part of being an employer in America.
If your company or your boss doesn't bother to learn the law and just acts like “I'm the boss and what I say, goes” then the negative effects of making legal mistakes will fall on them, not you. So keep up on the law. Stay a couple of steps ahead of your bullying boss. Hopefully I’ll be able to help you do that in an engaging, straightforward and even sometimes entertaining way that is easy to understand.
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Sorry to hear about your friend, Dutch Lady, but glad that these Hub's can help her. Give her my best. -Curt
Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous hubs, UL. Informative, well-written and very, very interesting. Keep writing on this stuff. It's good.
Thanks for the encouragement, Irohner. I just might print your comment out and paste it to my monitor.
As an employer having legal knowledge is essential. Either learn laws and regulations yourself or keep a lawyer on the payroll.
Erick,
So true, yet so infrequently practiced. Glad to hear you stay on top of these laws. Keep it up.
I've just finished reading three of your 'bullying bosses' hubs - with all the great information about what an employee may do to protect themselves! I will have to share this with my daughter, who is in such a situation -a 'good worker' who evidently makes 'others' look bad. I thought 'they' just piled it on because they didn't want to do the work themselves! Ha! Wonderful needed tips here, so thanks much for sharing!
You're so welcome Frogyfish. I hope this info helps your daughter at her work. I have more free info that you can find by checking out my profile.
I bought the e-book and there is alot of great material, but I cannot use any of it because I cannot get into a protected status. I am a white female over 40 and so is my boss, but I am getting frustrated with her incompetence and her rolling over for a supervisor and basically take their side and discipline people for crap reasons. I was one of those people 3 weeks and without warning get a write up of the 2nd Level, which means next time I am fired. We just had a co-worker fired last week for an even more crap reason and it was because of the supervior and her crony throwing my colleague under the bus. My write up I believe is also an attempt to throw me under the bus. HR was no help and I cannot find one thing to get them on and fear that I will be next in line.
Very interesting, detailed and helpful hub. Also like your Hub User name.
As a govt. employee who has had numerous whistleblower cases--which I initially won, only to have them overturned by a crooked administrative body--and EEO cases for taking away a disability accommodation that was initially granted, do you have any helpful information for govt. employees. The govt. knows they have all the taxpayer money in the world to keep fighting to bankrupt commplainants, and they have the crooked EEO judges and administrative review bodies on their side, and then they just get "deference" from the Circuit Courts. All your helpful advice doesn't work when they system is corrupt, and govt. managers have our taxpayer money funding them to drag things out and appeal until they do find a crooked judge or administrative review body. That is also why they have fought so hard against whistleblower reform with jury trials, which might slightly level the playing field. The public doesn't realize how this silencing of govt. employees wastes their tax money, and puts them at risk from environmental, drug, and other dangers.
Lynn, You CAN find a protected status based on your actions. Don't limit yourself to "fixed" classes like gender, age, and race. If past actions don't cover you, take covered actions today or Monday. Since you bought the book feel free to email me direct about this.
Reynolds Writing, Since you have "writing" in your name I'm especially appreciative of your encouraging words!
Gov't Employee, It sounds like you have had some very frustrating experiences. I've worked with numerous gov't employees, and they do actually have some extra protections compared to private employees such as due process rights, free speech rights, and a lower bar for whistleblower claims. I hope "the system" where you are gets cleaned up and cleaned out. Sounds like it desperately needs it.
Really important topic and helpful information for people who experience these problems. Thanks! Just linked to it from my blog.
I was personally insulted in public by the president of my company in the monthly management meeting. He made comments, in his typical feel-free harsh joking way, that nobody wants to sit next to me because I smelled bad, which I think is ture as I do have chronical bad breath and is a very embarassing painful fact for me. All colleagues laughed loud and joked around for a while. It disturbed and hurt me badly but I tried to control my anger without walking away. I have been recognized as a very capable empolyee and got promoted unprecidentally even I expressed intention to resign twice. But emotionally my experience with the company has not been a pleasant one and always feel isolated and misunderstood. Today's incident made me believe it has crossed a line that I should stand. I was thinking to confront this with the president tomorrow. I really have no motivation to work with the company any more. Can you tell me if I have a legal base to get compensated for the damage done (emotional, mental, self-esteem and reutation).
One other thing that I have problem with this company is that they really don't respect and protect employees privacy so kind of encourages gossips. To me, it just lacks basic moral and integrity.
thank you so much!
Rick49, Thanks for the compliment and a big thanks for the link! Really appreciate that. I joined your "fan club".
Lady1st, If you confront the president it should not be because he was rude or mean. You should state that your breath is a medical disability, and you feel is is discriminating against you because of it. Then, if he continues, you would have a legal claim. But you need to phrase it that way. See my other Hubs to understand why.
Excellent suggestions. I wonder about the "Firing too quickly" one. Isn't it to an employer's advantage (and their right to protect overall organizational health) to fairly quickly identify and get rid of obvious underperformers? That's why we have probation periods isn't it?
Hi Theo! On "firing too quickly", even probationary employees are covered by anti0-discrimination laws. So, say that a probationary employee who is female and 50 years old is about to be fired. There's no documentation about her performance being poor. She's never been warned. She's never been coached on how to improve. But she has been told that she's the same age as the manager's grandmother. Then she's let go without warning. What does it look like?
My boss makes it a point to make my life miserable..It is a female boss, she is very friendly with a coworker, let go on trips together, eat lunch together, etc...she always so's favorites, me on the other hand, i am the stepchild of the bunch. She is always making rude comments, and always talking down to me....and belittling me in front of everyone....She makes me miserable...
I am a government employee who is constantly bullied by my bosses from the lowest boss to HR. I expressed my concern by documenting the harassment of my fellow co-workers hoping my boss will protect me. My boss always turns me over to HR who started accusing me of the things that is being done to me, including insulting me and changing my documents and forced me to sign and was treated like I was in a court room. Instead of solving the problem, they protect the bullies who formed alliance and support their lies and deceit. My boss believed everything they say. The lead bullies are males who are very abusive verbally and emotionally. They are power hungry, bad mouthed me to their clients, friends, and outsiders. I am a very responsible and very honest employee but the boss and HR cannot see that as the bullies act and talked nicely when the boss is around. They attacked me at all sort, isolate me and make rules on the fly just to contradict everything that they see in me. What is my right and do If have a legal recourse? Thank you for all the great information.
Can you sue gossipers who never stop destroying your name?
I worked in a dental lab for over 10 years, dependable, hard working etc.. I put up with the office manager-computer guy going out of his way to blame me for others mistakes, harass and belittle me in front of others in the lab and go as far as physical confrontations with me over 8+ years, Just over a year ago he took over ownership of the lab. He has called me into his office four times for disciplinary actions for no reason other than his own entertainment. Now I have been fired as of 1/21/10 and in researching my rights as an employee I have found that as an "At Will" employee and being a straight , white, male I have NO Rights as an employee! I have talked to Prepaid legal services and several other employment lawyers and nobody will take my case. I have witnesses who will back my claims. Medical records that can verify my need for medications for stress and anger. Also footage of my ex boss making physical attempts to start a fight with me on my last day when I was being fired! SO, you can tell me all about my rights as an employee but I have been wronged by a complete jerk for a boss after working on a career for 10+ years and it seems it is within his LEGAL RIGHTS to ruin my life!!!!! It seems the hostile workplace laws just cycle back to the discrimination laws. Hey ,just go find another job, Right !
Ivy, you are not alone. As a straight white female, am in the same situation. Though I have not been terminated, yet.
Your words are overflowing with the same degree of anger which I am experiencing.
In all my years of working, I have NEVER experienced being bullied nor harassed. Was always deemed an excellent employee.
Suddenly I have issues which could, if not rectified, lead to termination? The worse annual evaluation in my career?
Not enough wrong doings for a lawyer to even take a consult.
Am frustrated, feel degraded, and extremely depressed.
Hard working, devoted, honest employees should not have to endure the wrath of power happy, dysfunctional bosses and managers.
I, for one, will not play the "victim" role and will educated myself as much as possible and stand up for my ETHICAL RIGHTS no matter what it takes.
Keep the faith all.
God Bless.
My bully boss smacked me in the arm three weeks ago, and yesterday I was fired. Concidence? I think not....
The job market is not good leaving me to stay at my current job. I need help, I have access to a lawyer if needed. My boss is crazy, he has hit me in the head with his hand, sparyed with a air can (dust away type),tells me to shut the hell up, calls me Barney 5, always talks down to me. I recorded him (for my own records)a month ago talking to a shift lead about how @#ucked I am, I have a friend who works with me who is always telling me that he is always saying rude, negitive remarks...I wish I could find another job! He even told me he would not say anything good about me if another job called for a ref. He has worked for the company for 20 plus years, and I have never been written up up for nothing. I do my job because I have bills. CAN I DO ANYTHING?
Thanks for all your advice I have learned a lot in the last 15 minutes. Concerning my rights in the workplace.
Thank you for giving me back my CONFIDENCE! Now I know how to use my wording to my management EXACTLY right, at exactly the right times, when it suits me. Yes, there is still workplace bullying and unfair work treatment. But I can still use my rights to my advantage, and KNOWING them is 99% of the battle! Thanks to you and your forum, I will remain updated at all times! Thank you again!Lynne.
Thank you so much for this information. So what can I do now? I have the situation where I was great on my performance evaluations and then write up, write up, fired! I have a personal relationship with one of our funders and she shared information with me and they fired me out of fear that I would share back things that would put us out of contract.
This hub has been very helpful. My wife has been bullied by her manager for several years now for using FML leave. He has admitted on several occasions that he does not like the FMLA. Her manager, along with his supervisor tried to keep her from reapplying for intermittent FML by having her 'work from home' on those days. Then a PIP was sprung on her at her last yearly evaluation. This was after a year of asking her manager (in regular 1 on 1 status mtgs)if there were any performance issues she needs to address...the answer was always no. Her performance evaluations Her last last six month evaluation
I am going through a terrible situation right now and this has helped. I am on medical leave for health problems that were only made worse by the harassment. I cry and this all the time (when I talk about it) and am actually afraid to go back to work. I dont think I am even strong enough to deal with one day back.
Wish me luck
I have an employee who challenges every single assignment I give her. She was transferred to me 2 yrs ago because she had problems with her previous Supv. I have submitted write ups to my Mgr., but he never responds to them and have actually claimed he did not receive a few. He recently told me HR lost the draft write-ups. I had a big verbal altercation with her recently and she claimed I got in her face in a confrontational manner. I requested my Mgr. to either transfer her or me out of the office because I feel she is going to attempt to file a lawsuit in the future and is just setting things up. Other employees in the office have expressed to me its too much tension and stress in the office and no longer want to work in the office. The Mgr. has refused to transfer me or the employee out of the office. Any suggestions.
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I've worked 20 years for the golden state which lately it isn't too golden. I've been subjected to bully type management since I started there two years ago and within these two years we've had a turn over of complete staff TWICE. Upper mgmt is completely blind to what is going on and the public needs to know how much money this is costing the state to train new employees. I have a health condition and my boss was able to obtain my medical records and is now after me with a vengence, so much for those freaking HIPAA laws. The best part about all of this when I talk to EEOC, unions, etc., they say to contact Personnel and file a complete - now are you ready for the punch(in the gut)line - The beast of a boss is the Personnel boss! So I've decided I'm not going to get any results or help from anyone and will probably lose my job. My spouse says don't worry about anything but reality is reality and sooner or later our marrige will be in the tank as well, I've decided to just say I'm done completely and I'm going to be walking away from everything, including my kids. What good of a parent am I, if I cant provide for them anyway? My character as an employee is pretty much "dirt" and the job market well, lets just say we are still waiting for that "hope & change" to occurr. I've never hated someone so much in my life it is hard to describe how their bullying can destroy you as a person. I have no hope left AT ALL! And yes I have tried EVERYTHING and when the boss controls everything, you might as well just quietly disappear.
what to do when bully boss in a federal employee?
Question-hope someone can answer-i was employed for over 3 years w/nothing but excellent reports-I filed a formal complaint against my boss for actions she was preforming against company policy and primarily against the law-within 3 weeks she had me out the door-basing every single time i was slightly late as her reasoning and using that to give me 3 write ups in my file-company policy for termination-here's the problem-i was on an expempt salary and my work schedule was flexible-with most days being there for over 12 work hours straight-never did i miss any time and never did i fail to work a 40 hour week or better- falls into the articles category for sure-amongst others-but how does this work when it was the same boss w/a sudden grudge?
Undercover Lawyer is right about all the points made in this article. I am encouraged to hear that anti-bullying statutes are being considered in the U.S., although it is already MANY years overdue, and I believe U.S. business interests will fight such legislation to their dying breath.
I had a good job history, with no problems at work (nothing I could not handle), until a few years after taking a job with the Postal Service. The first few years went well, but at some point, like someone switching on a light, I became a target for intense, Serial-style bullying by almost all managers I worked for, and for over 20 years, it took a major toll on my health and attitude. The Unions they had there were of little or no help to me - the Union bosses were only too glad to let me keep taking the heat, so it would be off them, it seemed. So, I had to fight all my own battles, did so successfully, and retired after 30 years, with a ton of attitude and merciless criticism on my lips for USPS Management. Without ever being able to get at the bottom of why I was treated this way, the only explanation that makes sense (and, the only one voiced openly to me by my co-workers) was that I was "too nice of a guy". That alone, and not my work record or performance, seems to have been 99% of the reason I was harassed. Lesson learned: follow your Gut...when you suspect you're being targeted for Bullying, fight back immediately, with everything including the kitchen sink. Make it as expensive as possible for them to continue doing their evil work upon you.
I have read all of this and it is very useful! I've got a bigger case to uncover now which had happened to me. Im not sure what should i do next because i don't have witnesses because most of all the employees are also in the wrong, (doing drugs and alcohol on work grounds). But i wasn't not in part of any of those things. I'm out of state trying my best and instead of saying how great I've done i get a threat letter and fired for no particular reason.
I really need help with my mental abusive boss. I have taken action trying to get something done about the boss. I am not the only one that has reported her and investagation is being done. I need to get out of this hostital inviroment. My blood presure had went of the wall because of her it affecting my health my doctor has been informen and she said it is causing me to much stress. I need to get transfered out of there. It is causing me to miss work cause i cant work in that inviroment. Please i need help so bad. I can explane futher if i could talk to some one. lduck53@hotmail.com
I work in a hairsalon, and we are independant contractors, of which she makes our hours and days off on a schedule, and everyday she brings in her grandchildren to work, one is 6 and the other is 4, and all the do is run around with the ipad recording customers, hitting us while we are cutting hair, or even the have hit the clients, Make a mess sweeping the hair, and if the owner/grandmother is busy with a client, we apperentally assume responsibility of the children. It is not professional at all, nor is it fair. Then our boss will leave for a couple of hours leaving usually just one of us in the salon to cope with everything, such as walk in clients, our appts, answering the phone, running the tanning, and cleaning the tanning beds, all because she doesnt want to have a receptionist on during the day, but it should be her responsibility one way or the other, since these are all her desicion. It takes us away from our clients and they get annoyed. How many people would want to come back if this keeps up? Please help. She now has set up the WII in our break area, which is super small to begin with, because the kids are off for the summer. Now we are out of a break area, only because its only big enough for 2 people at a time. I will look forward to any advice. We are despirate, and losing our mind. We are almost to the breaking point.
My boss has been harassing me for months now. I keep shrugging it off & look at tomorrow as a new day but its always something else. If she isn’t making my life miserable she is another woman in our department. Their are 2 men within the 7 of us & they are treated like gold, miss numerous amount of days and no disciplinary actions taken.. their work load is easier, no call no show which by company policy calls for automatic termination "guess what" you got it.. nothing said! I miss 1 an 1/2 days an I was wrote up with no warning. It's been getting bad past 4 months since I made a move and complained of her getting in my face within inches, I step back she steps forward back in my face. ask me why I wear the clothes I do. They are to tight " I am big busted" notices I have new jeans because they are tight on my butt! I have followed the chain of command in complaining about the way treated. told our boss, our boss's boss, the plant manager " taking a risk" even 1 of the owners. Just when I thought eye’s were opened & promised something was going to happen nothing has & its even gotten worse to where I keep getting scratches/damages to my car " that I cant prove"... I live in a small town with 2 little girls that I am raising by myself & there is no jobs. I know you cant answer my prayers, but can you please guide me with advice to help this nightmare end?
I work in a hostile environment, caused by my supervior.
I work for the state government, the supervisors are union employees can they be sued for bullying and harassment, and discrimination?
thank you so much my son is going through the same thing. getting excessive write up. you have answer my prayers. please pray for my son he is stressed, high blood. he cant afford to lose his job. he will seek legal action with eeoc.
Going threw this now with my new of 2 months direct supervisor. I live in Fl so the "at will" definition was helpful. From your artical it seems as if I am in a hostile environment. I am exposed to constant badmouthing of other supervicors, gossip,complaints, slamming thinqs on the desk and the draws. Complaining about her job. Her attempts to get another co worker fired and what she is doing to accomplish that, constantly telling me how there are "more qualified people looking for jobs so I had better be careful" I hear about her personal health issues daily and much more. When I go to her with issues directly relating to my completing my job she tells me shes too busy to assist me, it seems to me that this is what a supervisor is supposed to do,,,right? I have been with my company 1.5 years, never had a write up, no missed work for unjustified/approved reasons and these comments bother me. I went to HR earlier this month and she seemed to calm down but I had to go back on the past Friday because she as gotten bad again. I am just wondering if the few things I have mentioned fall into the category of "hostile environment"
i have a bully boss now and thanks for the tips and reminders
My husband and I own a small construction business in California. We have a few employees who like to cause trouble or take down the bunch. They are given direction and do not follow it. Then they do things wrong, send finished products to clients that are incorrect when they should have asked for assistance. My husband and I get so frustrated, but if we raise our voice or vent out of frustration we get complaints that they are stressed. How are we supposed to handle this? The frustration is not because of their race or gender. It is because they are displaying actions that they do not care about their job which shows they don't care about the success or failure of the company.
I am so glad to see a site like this. Myself and wife both work in same place. A new manager has been hired and is trying to push all older employees out only because they liked the other manager.We do nothing wrong but always seem to be in a stress situation. I have been documenting everything and almost ready for attorney! After reading your list i am amazed to see that almost every 'Example' has/is happening to us right now! Also...to make matters worse it is a 'Private Club' whos members are all foriegn. The abuse from them is ridiculous! Please help.
I personally think that human resource personnel should have a governing body over them (that is enforced not a voluntary organisation that they can join) and when they help management not deal properly with bullying situations we should be able to make a complaint about the individual(s) and they should have their name mentioned on a public website to name and shame them.
Thank you so much undercover lawyer. This will help reduce bullied people's legal bills which is one reason why it is difficult to stop workplace bullying. Much appreciated.
I am looking for an attorney willing to go up against the federal/military/army/civil service for supporting a hostil work environment which resulted in medical problems for me. Got plenty of documentation and my come to pass as a class action because I am not the only one at the military installation/medical command.
Wow, what an eyeopener, just got fired 4 days ago after 18 years at the same job, I still can't believe it, will file a grievance and go from there.
My boss called me a fat ass and was screaming so loudly that I thought his head was going to explode. My manager told me if I did not like it to find another job.
What a great site! Pity it's American, as I'm having similar problems in the UK. We are frequntly told if we don't like it **** off and work elsewhere, comments made abouth other team members in their absence are awful, and so it goes on. Our guy is ignorant and disruptive, then when he's wasted your day, hw wants to know why things aren't done. Had a go at me but I've raised a grievance, and now I think they may use it to get rid of me. You just can't win
Dutch Lady 2 years ago
I have a friend going through the Bully Boss deal right now. This is super info for her!