Work related not sure what I should do.

[Sarahbumdaa]

I started a new job 7 months ago. I've worked in this field for 11 years now. I was excited to start my new role. However my colleagues have not been welcoming. In fact I've been given the silent treatment because of gossiping between themselves. So for example it was said I did something that I absolutely had not done. I've now made a working relationship with some other new starters who have since made best friends with each other and have been taking the mick out of me. avoiding me. talking over me. I know im not there to make friends but just to have a bit of a chat when i eat my sandwich is all im looking for. The shifts have been made shorter so im losing hours even tho they don't have enough staff lots of pressure to work your days off. I should leave shouldn't I

Yep.

There are better places to work. I've left jobs for lesser reasons than that.

Yes. And be blunt as to why you are leaving too.
People will suggest hr but after that behaviour I wouldn't want to work there regardless

This tenfold.

There's no way I'd be accused of something I hadn't done.

Thanks ive tried to stick it out hoping it would get better i dread going there however

Start looking for a new job. Life really is too short for this nonsense

Ah, a toxic workplace. Unfortunately the only way it gets better is if the people responsible for it leave, and they usually don’t, because they like being in their nasty little cliques and having power to make other people miserable. I had to leave somewhere like this, which was upsetting because it was a great job. Going to HR would have been no use - they were part of the problem.

I have complained to management and nothing was done i spoke to the person who was spreading the gossip and now she won't speak to me at all. I spoke to her because she was putting me down infront of the people I work with and because I felt I had to because nothing was done

I've worked in jobs like this before and had to stick to it because I needed the money (stupid me). 35 yr old me now says no stress is worth the money to work in a toxic environment. I would speed up your job application process and get the hell out of there asap. They won't deal with the actual problem ever, they would rather bury their head in sand hoping that you would go away.

Its a real shame because the job itself is lovely. But I am going to leave because its making me feel awful in myself. When ive done nothing wrong. I've just applied for something else see if I get an interview. I hope so!. In any case I.ll try and stick it out in the meantime worse comes to worse I will leave because its effecting my confidence

Leave, it's never worth staying in a job you are beginning to dread, for whatever reason.

good luck with the job hunt, OP.
When you leave make sure you tell everyone it's because X spread lies about you and that now you're gone they should watch their backs.

Brefugee I would but no one listens to me

What field is this? are they a big company?

I would be looking to leave ASAP

Yes big company care

How rubbish for you, I'm sorry. Why are people like this, just so short-sighted as now they will have to recruit again. But life is definitely too short for this kind of crap. Good luck with getting a new role asap.

Thanks everyone

@Sarahbumdaa I identify with a lot of what you're going through - although for me it's only one person and the methods are a bit different, but the point of my message to you is please, please get out now and don't do what I've done and put up with it for over a decade. I wish I'd walked years ago.

Hope you find a happier role soon.

Sorry that it's that bad. Lodge a complaint with HR then leave anyway. If the company's worth a damn they'll take a very dim view of person who's causing it.

I knew it was care. Sounds like the nursing home I worked in. I hope you find somewhere with nicer people.

I was going to ask is it a care home. Some of those places are so toxic. Just move on, there's plenty of work out there for you.

They sound like a nasty bunch. Look for a new job.

If you don't want to change jobs, eat lunch at your desk while working them go a walk alone at lunch. I did this at places.

I think the reason I've made friends at jobs (I work contracts so change at least yearly) is I have low expectations. People are generally like cats. If you don't need their respect they tend to like you more.

*Or at lunch somewhere outside on your walk. Don't waste any time trying to be friendly. Just don't care.

I'm interested in the last sentence of this how would I act?

I had no idea care homes were toxic workplaces. Why is that?