Hi people, it is unlike me to make a post like this but it is troubling me a lot and I always find Mumsnet to be very helpful with advice and I would really appreciate some honest advice and opinions as I really don't know what to do in this situation. I will try not to be too boring Nd give a bit of background. Basically I have quite a good job (worked hard to get there) and have bed there for 6 years. Generally I enjoy my job and get on well with everyone usually (it's a huge company I work for ). I went on maternity leave for a year and finally managed to negotiate part time hours for when I went back to work. I returned to my job in June, which was really hard leaving my young child etc but I wanted to give it a go working less hours. I know my job inside out however a few changes have occurred while I've been on maternity leave and there are two new people in the team I work in. One lady seems to have a real dislike for me and I have no idea why as I have done nothing but be friendly and chatty and nice since I went back in June. This lady is much older than me, in her mid 50's actually and I am early 30's. Anyway in my first few weeks back at work she started making rude remarks at me and being unpleasant with nasty jibes during the day but I chose to ignore them. I told my husband and he said to ignore her. I wish now that I hadn't let this continue but I don't like to cause trouble at work. This went on and on and she would be checking up on me, asking what I was working on and if I has finished a certain job yet etc and things that you'd expect a manager or more senior person to ask and I felt targeted and watched. Bare in mind she is the same grade as me. I continued to put up with this until July when one day I was in the office and received an email from her which she had sent to me and copied in both our manager and a more senior person in the company and it was titled 'feedback' and basically this lady had taken it upon herself to write a load of lies about me to try and obviously cause trouble. Everything she wrote was made up, things such as I late every morning to work and take long lunch breaks and am always on the phone. Absolutely none of these things were true and I could back things up such as the time I arrive to work. But anyway, this really upset me and when I read the email I was stunned and just couldn't believe it . I burst into tears and had to have a meeting with my manager where I finally spoke up and said that she had not been very nice to me previously . I didn't get into trouble as nothing she had said about me could be evidenced and she was told to stop watching me and acting like a manager etc and was warned about the way she had been speaking to me. After this, things felt awkward at work but I remained friendly and civil and she started to be much more friendly and I thought that maybe she had learnt her lesson. Only out of the blue yesterday I was called into a meeting by my manager as she has now apparently made up a load of other things about me and is trying to get me into trouble at work. She made up something about some work I did yesterday and luckily I managed to prove she was wrong but she is putting me on the manager's radar and it is really making work unpleasant. She has also turned another person in our team against me as neither if them speak to me at all now. I really don't know what I have done wrong or to upset this woman. I come to work to get on with my job and go home to my family. It is hard enough leaving my child to go to work without this petty rubbish going on at work. Do you think I should leave? Or keep putting up with this? Any advice appreciated.
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