Hi- Hope someone can help with this. My daughter has worked for a supermarket part time for the last 4 years. She’s 20. She became friends with 3 other girls she worked with and they have socialised together. 2 months ago, an argument broke out over shifts via WhatsApp. All 3 girls sent abusive texts to my daughter in the group and they fell out spectacularly. My daughter’s boss had asked one of the girls to discuss shifts with my daughter and that’s how the argument started. My daughter has worked various shifts with these girls since the argument and they ignore her, stand together whispering and laughing whilst looking at her which makes my daughter paranoid. They shove past her and undermine her in front of customers. My daughter has sent messages to them asking to sort it out for the sake of work but they refuse. My daughter has literally begged her boss to help her. We have 3 messages where my daughter is pleading with her boss to get everyone together to sort it out as work is becoming unbearable for her. Each time, the boss says she’s not getting involved. All 3 girls bad mouth my daughter to the boss and the boss then tells my daughter what they have said. The boss tells my daughter they are out of order but then does nothing to stop it. The girls then tell my daughter that the boss is ‘on their side’. My daughter confided in her boss that she was feeling paranoid and had had a panic attack before one of her shifts last week. The boss had clearly said something to the girls as the next day, one of the girls put a meme on Facebook of someone having a panic attack and all 3 girls liked the post and put laughing emojis on it.
My daughter wants to just walk out but she’s not put in an official grievance against anyone so I’m thinking if she left and went for constructive dismissal, it would go against her the fact that she hasn’t raised a grievance. What do you think?