After reporting a very bad bully to HR, Manager changed full time employee’s review from excellent (employee acknowledged the good one days before change) to very negative without employee’s knowledge; Sent emails to employee stating employee was under performance; Sent a few hundred of emails with requests, questions and accusations, usually like what are you doing this one hour or this 35 minutes; After employee delivered tasks on time, manager told employee that it should have been done within 15 - 35 minutes for a technical job; Set mission impossible, give half day to employee for a work that takes 10 days. HR seems very OK to allow manager to do anything. Manager and bully are protected by upper level. Next Step?
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After working long hrs to meet deadline, employee gets meets rating recently and an Action Plan with due day was sent to employee. HR told employee it is not PIP, is it not? Management did not explain, only informed it was an Action Plan.
What lob? I'm curious if is same bully I've seen.
Call the whistleblower line.
Workplace bully
https://youtu.be/mEFYCPHu3Vk
Personal leave of absence if harassment starts impacting mental/physical health. Don't leave without another job lined up. Managers don't usually last (2 years tops), so realistic you'll eventually be reporting to someone else. Document every instance of harassment, and consider talking to an employment attorney. Get very proactive about finding a new job.
If HR and upper management protects the bully than my advice to the person being bullied is to leave. I'm speaking from experience. There is no upside in staying, you can't reason with bullies and if the bullied person is not being supported internally, it can only end badly for them. I know it's unfair and infuriating as they shouldn't be the ones having to leave, but that's the best thing to do. Situations like this almost always only get worse, not better.
You could go to the EEOC but unfortunately there are no laws against bullying.. I’ve tried! I had stacks of emails, Skype messages, and performance reviews I printed. The EEOC agent stated that he saw clear signs of bullying but there were no laws broken. He went through all my papers and tried to find any instance where my time was violated (I live in CA where there are strict time laws), but he couldn’t find anything. If this happened to me again I would go straight to an employment attorney.