He works at a warehouse for a big company that has daily targets, and he's been there less than 3 months so he's still in the probation period. The targets are set by upper management and ridiculously hard for new people to achieve, even people who have been there for years fail targets on some days. The managers are really strict about people hitting targets because they want to get promoted so they must make their workers work harder, so a lot of the managers are unbearable and unreasonable about personal circumstances, etc, and just generally not people you can talk to about work problems like a “normal” boss would be.
A lot of my partner's colleagues that he started alongside have had their probation extended for just barely meeting targets. But my partner is experiencing some weird stuff from his manager. For example, she took some of his numbers and gave them to other people without his consent, so he failed the target for that day when he would've otherwise hit it. Also, she gives him direct write-ups even when he's consistently hitting targets, and makes up random numbers to make him look bad (one time she said he'd been hitting 24% for the entire week when he'd been doing over 100%). Another thing is that she tries every day to assign him the slowest work. The targets aren't scaled for size of the item, 1000 units is 1000 units even if its chocolate bars or large vases, so she's giving him the ridiculous stuff and giving the basically free targets to her favorite employees.
She's threatened to not extend his probation (so just fire him, basically…) if he doesnt hit targets this week, but that thing with the giving his numbers to other people happened just yesterday, which counts as part of this week. I told my partner to go to upper management, but he says that his manager and upper management are all buddy-buddy together and even sit together at lunch, so they wouldn't listen. What can he do?
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Edit: I'm not saying its cuz of any of his characteristics, this bitch just genuinely doesnt like him for no discernible reason