What would you do?

[Tiggy26]

My boss is making my life soooooo difficult she spends most of her time making "personal" calls and whispering down the phone (she doesnt realise the whole office can actually hear her!) and when shes finished with her call she puts the "portable phone" back down next to her. When a customer rings she says to me "get that for me" (no please, no thank-you) When i said to her the phone is right next to you, she snapps and says "im busy! answer the phone" so all day long im rushing around to find a portablke phone that she could have plonked anywhere! and its really wearing me out

If she sees me having a laugh with one of the girls, she snapps again and says what am i doing! and what work have i done.

For god sakes!!! its not like im a child, i work very hard and every now and then its just nice to have a little baby talk while doing your work!

She has caused such a bad atmospher within the office all of us cant stand working with her anymore. she is intimidating, moody, insulting and to be honest just makes you feel scared half the time.

Im so tempted to ask the doctor to sign me off work due to stress or something but im worried as ive already had 7 weeks off due to bleeding e.t.c (havnt had a great pregnancy)

Can i get in any trouble by having more time off if im pregnant? I just cant carry on like this, and she is not the kind of boss you can talk to about this or tell her how shes making me feel. She loves power and enjoys treating people the way she does. She is also "best mates" with the area director which doesnt help!

Tiggy xx

 

[moomoo192]

aw hun she sounds like a right old moo.

If its making you feel low i would see what the doc says, they can't do anything if your signed off work anyway, i was and it might work out better for you

go get a sick note

 

[Pregnopaws]

If you all feel the same and find the courage you should all request a staff meeting and approach her with your grievances. If she fails to respond to anything you say there must be someone higher up than her in the company who you could all send a letter to perhaps?

Don't just put up with it or walk away simply because you feel vulnerable and think you may risk losing your job. The way things appear to be right now you are more at risk of losing it, as you may erupt one day and just walk out or quit! So perhaps try dealing with her first..

This also happened to a company I worked for once, and the entire dept finally had had enough of their boss that they each sent a letter of complaint to a higher boss. For weeks after it didn't seem like it made a difference but then out of the blue the boss was suddenly gone (confronted and told to go!). Of course, they said he had to leave for urgent family reasons, but he never had any family and so we knew that it was an excuse but at the end of the day it worked; as even top management know that very unhappy staff are staff that cannot work at their best potential for long! Hope things improve xx

 

[Angelblue]

write everything down!( with dates and times)!! she sounds to me like that she is discriminating against you, if she is making other staff feel the same,and you trust them speak to them about taking it further.
You can get anonymous legal adviced from ACAS, they are brilliant.They will even tell you what to say to help stand up for yourself!