I worked for a large corporation for just over 6 years. I was a model employee with no issues.
Our company had a restructure meaning that we had a new team with a different line manager. A couple in the team were toxic. They spoke poorly of each other and were gossiping a lot. They didn’t like the incoming phone line and decided it needed a rota to split the cover. It was more to accommodate fag breaks as they stood outside together getting someone to cover.
My personal circumstances were that I’ve had 6 rounds of IVF with varying degrees of success, pregnant them miscarried, pregnant then ectopic pregnancy, anemia needing a full blood transfusion. So this meant I had a lot of time off. Work policies were fine with it but some in my team were unsupportive.
After the last episode of IVF and time off I returned to work, it was okay but felt pressured from one individual with digs about staff levels, covering my work and just really felt she was being a bitch. It was passive aggressive messages on Teams etc. This person knew that I’d returned after another miscarriage so did my manager.
I raised it through the correct channels, I told the person I was going to raise concerns about her, when I discussed it with my manager he told be he was staying impartial, go to mediation, he didn’t have an opinion but X wanted to progress.
Personally it felt like I’d been let down, I’m particularly vulnerable at the moment and could have done with some support.
Anyway the next week I gave notice to leave, have left but feel I’ve let myself funny not standing up for myself. It could look like I’ve run away.
I can accept the environment wasn’t great but feel with support I could have worked through it.
What are others thoughts?