Just wondered if anyone has any advice at all.
i work as part of a team of lovely people. Sure, we won’t all be best friends but on the whole everyone gets on well and works very hard.
one of our employees (who was on the same level as us but slightly higher up the pecking order in terms of length of time and assumed seniority IYSWIM) has recently been promoted to our manager. Great. We were all genuinely delighted for her as she was deserving of it.
but she has completely changed overnight. She has become really nit picky, pedantic and overall quite nasty. She bitches about people in earshot of others and picks favourites and treats people differently.
She used to be the opposite of that. She was lovely, hard working, firm but very fair and just an overall very likeable person. She actually used to complain about work all the time and how she disliked the top managers and disliked this and that and at times it was frustrating because it felt like constant negativity and moaning but it was sometimes good to have a good complain together about the world. She was constantly saying she was going to get a job elsewhere until she got her promotion and decided to stay instead.
but since staying she changed completely overnight. I understand that new bosses are often keen to prove themselves and be strict but she’s become quite unlikeable. For example I returned from my lunch hour and popped into the toilet as my hour time was up. she immediately pulled me up on how I was 1 minute and seconds late from lunch. I advised her I wasn’t feeling well (I had accidentally eaten something contaminated with food im intolerant to) and suddenly needed the bathroom. If it was a regular thing where people delayed lunch by going to the toilet etc I could understand her coming down hard on it but it was a one off thing. Other things are small and minor but upsetting- she has become extremely strict and shouts at you for the smallest things, eg I was shouted at for fixing a mistake which I didn’t make (it was one of her favourites incidentally!) and I was simply sorting the problem as per correct guidelines and she went through me saying that she is fed up with how crap the team is and how nobody bothers to work hard and how everyone is lazy etc. our work always had a very relaxing yet hard working attitude and it’s become the opposite now. She used to bitch constantly about how she was angry at the constant requests of people to do overtime and why couldnt the managers just adequately staff the rota etc, but yet went through me for not doing any extra overtime recently.
Someone made a joke the other day about going to a rival company because they had better lunch options (it was very clearly a joke!) and everyone was kidding along saying traitor, you’ll be dead to us etc and so on and she went THROUGH them saying it was incredibly unprofessional to even joke about that and unacceptable and if she hated our company so much she knew where the door is (even though she spent the majority of her pre manager days saying how much she hated it and wanted to leave and she wasn’t joking she was deadly serious)
it sounds really petty but I’m so upset with how our working environment has changed now. I understand she can’t be the same chilled out person with us all as she was before now she’s a manager but the power has completely gone to her head. We have been working as hard as we can to make her job as easy for her as possible especially since she’s just starting off and it’s like she’s completely turned on us all. The managers above her are so chilled out and not strict so it’s not like they have made her be like this either. We were hesitant to speak to them as we don’t want her to get in trouble or cause problems for her
does anyone have any advice? TIA 🙂