supervisor bullying

[MrsNortham]

so yesterday I went into work and basically my supervisor pulled myself and a colleague and called us bitches and told us to watch our backs cos she's after us now

a little background is she has been in trouble as she is trying to make her bosses life hard and I'd accidentally dropped her in it with him as I didn't know we weren;t supposed to tell him we'd been told we weren;t allowed to help him...oops

So when we get into work yesterday she was very threatening and aggressive as she always is and she had my friend in tears she swore at us and threatened us

I have gone ahead and reported it to her boss and he said he would take it further, but I just wondered if I should go in myself on Monday morning and make a complaint about it all, the lady in the office who would be the point of contact is very good friends with the woman in question and I think it is her that has told her it was me that had dropped her in it in the first place

I just sooo worried as she has in the past bullied at least two people out of their jobs in the past and I couldn;t afford to quit if I wanted to, but their just seems to be little point in reporting it as in the past when this has happened with other people the lady in the office just seems to tell her whatever has been said and that it, she doesn't get into trouble but then has an issue with whoever has complained about her argghhhh............I just need to start looking for another job don't I?

Have you made an offical complaint under the bullying policy or just had a word with the boss? I have found that if no-one makes a stand it does go on. Only you can decide if you can go through with that.

she is mental and shouldn't be in a workplace.

Complain in writing, copying in the next person in the chain. If there is a grievance policy easily available, follow it, but still copy in more senior people 'because of the seriousness of the breaches'. You can argue that you have no requirement to follow procedures if they try to block you on this, as direct threats to employees would constitute gross misconduct.

If you do written complaints (including e-mails) keep copies, then it can't be ignored - keep copies at home. If you are dismissed, go to employment tribunal - lots of people will tell you not to make a stand, ignore these cowards. Tribunals deal well with clear cases like these.

Finally god on you for talkking about this and already trying to do something - the reason she thinks she can get away with this is because she obviously has before.

thanks that's what I thought

I have complained to her boss and he is taking it further, but I just feel like it'll be ignored like it always is

so I'll write a letter and it means it's not easily ignored and I'll ask my friend to do the same, yeah the thing that puts anyone off doing anything about it is the fact that the woman who should deal with this is up my supervisors arse lol

How should I word my letter? they always make you feel like you are making a fuss about nothing at work over these things so how can I do it? obv I'll have the date and times etc but not sure what else to put in it

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Complain to the next boss up if you think her boss will do nothing.
Check your works grievance policy or whistle blowing policy.
Maybe start your letter with:

It is with regret that I / we have to bring these concerns to management, but in the interests of the company I /we do not feel I /we do not wish for things to carry on as they have been.
Then you could bullet point as list of your concerns and then expand on them.

If good workers end up leaving the company because of this bully it is going to cost the company money to recruit more staff who may also end up leaving due to bullying.
It takes a lot to be brave and to put your head above the parapet, but sometimes you just have to.
You will have done the RIGHT thing even if things don't turn out as you want, and of course she could be dismissed for gross misconduct which is what bullying is!

Oh my god she needs to go! there are really good workers out there cryiong out for jobs and little cows like this have 1 and think there god gift cos they get to tell someone else what to do for a few hours a day, definatly complain all the way to thed top about her, if at first you send the letters to her boss and the Hr dept if you have one, if nothing else comes of it resend your letters to the next higher person up until it gets to the C.E.O /Managing Director level.

She must be stopped! and youve got no reason to worry over your job unless you dont do anything and put up with her talking down to you! good luck x

Just put it in factually with dates e.g

on x date y told me and colleague to do this to z (without informing us that this was confidential information)
on x date I mentioned this in passing to z
on x date y took me and colleague aside and used inappropriate language (bitches), threatened us and stated etc. This made me feel .....

on x date I reported it to z

I am now raising this as an official grievance (and whatever else your policy says you need to do). I've never done one personally but from a legal perspective it's easier to have things spelled out. Also if there is a previous history of bad conduct towards you even if not as severe put it in.

thanks everyone, I have spoken to her boss this morning and he wants me to speak to his boss about it!! eek!

So that's what's happening this afternoon, I have drafted a letter along those lines tigger thanks and I'm just going to offer to bring that in if they want to make things official

I have also copied and pasted her facebook status from the day before all this kicked off as it was obv directed at myself incase I need it at a later date

The thing is I can see what needs to happen but at work they just have a way of making you feel that you are being petty and telling tales but I think that hopefully as it is going higher this time that something may actually get done

So what I'm going to say today is what tiggers said I'm going to say that I don;t want to be petty about it but I have been worried all weekend about work today and that I just wanted to make it known what had been said incae there are probs in the future