Dear Sir,
It goes like this. I work for a hatchetman. He's been harrassing me since the day he entered the place. He plays hardball ONLY with me.
I once held a very nice position - I loved my job. I was the administration office for the whole department and assisted my boss to the best of my ability, and I was treated very nice - no bribes, just nice.
Throughout the 15 years of working under this boss, I have been in retribution for my past position in the department. EVERYTHING - every responsibility that I took pride in was given to someone with a much higher pay scale - Someone used to be my friend. The relationship is so bitter between he and I - there is no communication at all. And this breakdown does affect the workflow. He refuses to work with me. Of course, he has slandered me, he has offended me and wounded me tremendously to the point of no reparations. The respect is mutual. He has made a new position for me - the buttjoke, the ridicule of the whole two labs that he runs. AND, then after all of this, he faults me for being unprofessional with my anger and bitterness toward him and his "wives" and the working environment. Oh yes, I'm jealous too. This man portrays being a mild-mannered mouse, and yet, does a lot of talking at the same time.
(Please don't tell me to get another job - I try whenever I see a worthwhile ad. I get no responses. There are no jobs in my area.)
I have no speaking privileges. He is not approachable by me.
He has made an announcement now that he will be reducing through an attrition method. AND, now, once again, he is lining up the situation to put me in a compromising position - his ultimatum - to get rid of me. . . this has been his theme and hobby for 15 years - to get a voluntary resignation from me.
I'm there longer than him. I just had my 19th anniversary. AND, I've had enough. I can give you a couple of good examples where he has gone too far with me personally. Now, he has even managed to pit my counterpart against me. It's funny how we started out as "friends" and have become colder and colder to this point. What a man! There will be no dignity for me, will there!
Tell me, how do you graciously embrace and receive such covert, underhanded, and crooked maneuvers? Was I supposed to be smiling and bring in flowers each time he crushed me and stepped on me - in front of all of my co-workers?
I need advice from somebody, whether it be legal or medical. He is trying to show up my personality to get rid of me. He is showing favoritism to his wife who is also my counterpart who he is in "love" with to swap us in our locations. I worked too hard - all my life - for this. I'm straight as an arrow too! Very thorough with my work.
I've been accused of falsifying my time, violating payroll policies, coming in late illegally (when I followed the instructions that he himself approved), computer hacking, gossiping, investigated for applying for a FMLOA for chronic illness (which is our company policy/benefit). The list of suspicions and complaints about me is endless. Is anybody watching what this guy is doing? What kind of laws are in place? All the records are in place of exactly what I do. There is nothing illegal!
Oh yes, let me tell you that his wives do the same things that I used to, think the same way as I do, and he's OK with that.
What exactly do we all go to work to do?
Documentation can be very difficult to capture "the life". I do realize that it is necessary. But, by the way, the management is select on which documentation counts. I am abused, wrongfully. The management in my place breaches confidentiality. Go figure, then I get told I'm unprofessional. Oh yeah, let me tell you that I have been working in solitary confinement for a long time now. I have been silenced and extremently quiet, just watching everything and picking up on whatever I can. No noise from me for a long time. It is a very backstabbing management. I have NO communication whatsoever. However, for some reason, I remain the brunt of all their manipulation maneuvers, and held in very high suspicion as stated before.
I worked all my life. I love to work and take pride in my work. But, I do not excel in "games". I am honest, yet naive; powerless with no one to go to on my behalf.
That's the jist of my story.
