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My supervisor is wrecking stuff at work

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Kyloes · 09/09/2020 13:46

Name change as it’s work related and I don’t want to be found out.

Basically I am going through a probation period at work and the woman mentoring me gets the final say whether I pass or not. I work with her all the time. A few things have occurred. Someone drew a penis on the bathroom wall. Obviously nobody owned up to it but one of the blokes was suspected even though he swore it wasn’t him.
Someone stabbed a fork into the staff room wall and left it hanging there. Nobody owned upto it.

Recently a woman brought homemade buns in to share (I know, Covid alert) and they were laid out all pretty on the staff room table. I walked in there to get my drink and my supervisor was there with cake all over head hand and uniform. She quickly went to the sink to wash it off and said she’d just finished her lunch and walked out quickly. I then noticed that all the buns had been smashed to pieces. It caused a massive uproar and investigation. Nobody owned upto it.

Latest one, someone brought a slimming world book in with recipes etc and left it on the table for anyone who wanted to look at it. I walked in to find my supervisor defacing the book, drawing glasses and facial hair on the women, vampire teeth, devil horns etc. When she saw me she said “I fucking hate slimming world, look what I’ve done” and showed me she’d written horrible things all through the book, ripped pages, squashed butter through it etc etc. I said “why did you do that? X is going to be furious” so she replied “yep, good”.

Anyway afterwards she told me everyone in the team thinks I’m behind the stuff that’s been going on as I’m new and nothing like this has happened before. So I said “well why can’t you tell them it was you and apologise?” So she said she only defaced the book, i had done everything else!! Now I’m paranoid as of course they’ll blame me. She’s in her mid 40s, why would someone of that act like that? Only thing on my side is she’s been posting weird stuff on Facebook lately that everyone is talking about.
AIBU to just keep quiet?? If they think it’s me I don’t want to be the one bringing it up as it will look like I’ve been waiting for a reaction

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MrsElijahMikaelson1 · 10/09/2020 07:20

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FeedMeSantiago · 10/09/2020 08:29

Someone I worked with many years ago started doing odd things at work in the run up to their mental breakdown.

Your colleague sounds unwell and I would speak to your manager and say you're concerned about her. Say you witnessed her defacing the book and the rest and that she has said everyone suspects you. Couch it all as concern for her welfare - she does genuinely sound like she might be really quite unwell.

ladycarlotta · 10/09/2020 12:43

OP, this sounds horrendous - yes I do think you need to speak to HR. I actually doubt that you are the only person who will have noticed anything, would it make it less daunting for you to think that you are actually adding information to a pool rather than being the sole informant?

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