Hi all,
just looking for some advice regarding a work situation.
My old manager wasn’t very professional when I returned to work after being off after surgery. First day back in he took me into a room and just started slating people to me (not what I wanted to hear on my first day) things went downhill after the first week and I ended up being stressed and workload was unbearable.
I took it upon myself to speak to management who once addressed the situation made the decision to move me with another colleague to my relief. Great this was good news and def less stress etc.
The guy they swapped me with we were friends and chatted all the time, since the day we moved teams he has been nothing but arrogant, rude and disrespectful. His mannerisms towards only myself are very difficult to understand. I have approached my manager to advise if the situation but nothing has been done about it.
3 months on and his behaviour has t changed, last week there were 2 incidents where his behaviour and attitude really got to me. Again spoke to my manager and it’s in one ear and out the other.
I confided in another manager about how annoyed and fed up I am of the situation, I called the guy a ‘bitch’. The manager then asked me “are you homophobic”?? Which completely took me by surprise, when I asked how did he ask that & was it because I called him a bitch he replied “no because they are both gay”! I said of course not, my close friend (who died suddenly aged 38) is/was gay and his reply was well he’s stil gay even if he’s dead. I was in total shock!!
Regardless of their sexuality they have both been awful to me, their sexuality has absolutely nothing to do with their behaviour.
I have a meeting with senior management and I’m just trying ti get my head around the fact of how someone can just come out and ask me that, he’s made that assumption and has really offended me.
what are your thoughts??