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Do work place bullies always get their comeuppance?

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Hypie · 01/05/2021 17:27

NHS

We have a notorious senior manager. She's been around for years, quickly went through the ranks because she 'gets things done'. The way she gets things done is shouting, screaming, swearing, telling people she could replace them the next day and just general awful fucking behaviour.

The service she works for has massively high staff turnover, last two managers under her have gone off sick with stress and she's had two people put claims against her which fell down because nobody would go on record as a witness.

She is now my manager and within two weeks i've already had two run ins with her. The first was hearing her directly ask someone if they 'were fucking stupid' the second was her phoning me and giving me an earful because of a complaint the department had received (unfounded but she hasnt come back and apologised).

She has apparently reduced men to tears! I've seen her screw her face up when people are talking on teams calls, she is just a foul nasty person with no management skills whatsoever. All she knows how to do is shout and scream to get people to do things.

These people always come up against someone bigger and better eventually don't they? Even for the NHS she is pushing it, I've seen some shitty managers in my time but she is something else

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Memedru · 03/05/2021 07:30

I moved into a new job a few years ago, was very surprised i got the job, anyway I was doing the job for a few weeks, and got pulled I to the office by the ward sister, apparently one of my colleagues had acused me of bullying her, I hadnt!

It was investigated over the course of a month, and came back that it was a load of shit, my partner told me he reckoned she went for the job aswell and didnt get it, well it turned out he was right!

A few months later, she lost her nurses pin because of neglect, and I was the one that had reported it, she literally lost her career overnight

poppycat10 · 03/05/2021 08:22

I've complained a few times and put in a formal complaint and still nothing is done. God knows what this woman has over the boss! She's constantly making mistakes and is very slow at her work, which then delays everything else

Yes you really do wonder this at times! The first person I mentioned who was a bully, he had a nightmarish PA. We always wondered what she had on him. Without her, he wasn't actually that bad. But with her, a complete nightmare. At least it was the whole team, so we supported each other. It's far worse when you're the only one (currently) being bullied.

pipsqueakbollock · 03/05/2021 09:01

My boss is a bully. Education. She keeps certain administrative tasks so close that she had made herself a bit too important to lose... along with her exaggeration that the school will fall apart without her because no one else can perform these tasks.

She actively blocks any training where staff can legitimately learn the tasks as part of their role.

She is foul.

Hypie · 03/05/2021 10:04

@TheYearOfSmallThings, think I might know who you mean!!

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TheYearOfSmallThings · 03/05/2021 11:15

@TheYearOfSmallThings, think I might know who you mean!!

I would like to think it is a unique situation, but I'm afraid it probably isn't!

goldenlilliesdaffodillies · 03/05/2021 14:49

No I don't think they do. If they do end up leaving, they usually leave with a big payout with lots of really good staff having been forced to leave first.

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