I had a coworker at my previous job who was training me, and I asked her “too many questions” once over email. I had been there for about a month. She snapped at me and wrote a 5 paragraph long email telling me how awful I was at completing training, criticized my work ethic, told me I need to pay attention, and overall attacked me. Though it’s hard to describe without going into too much detail, this was a VERY personal attack from someone I had no issues with prior. I forwarded it to my supervisor who called me to apologize and would talk to her. From what I understand, nothing came out of it but for weeks I trained under somebody else. Not surprising though, because my supervisor talked shit about all her employees(my coworkers) to me behind their backs besides her because she’s “funny.” In addition, my previous supervisor was incredibly rude, I was not allowed to talk to her when she was typing if she was in the office with me. If I did she’d tell me to leave her alone. Often, she’d yell at people over the phone and slam things around her desk. About once an hour, she’d message me on teams asking what I was doing if I worked from home that day. My status on teams had to be set to green at all times, if I forget I get a rude message. One time, there was a company-wide teams meeting, and she asked if I had joined over text. I told her yes, and she said “really? I don’t see you on the list of participants.” I had to take a picture of my computer logged onto the meeting and text it to her. After I sent it, she didn’t respond.
Finally, after repeated abuse from my supervisor for missing one 15 minute meeting with our small group of 8 people after working there for 5-6 months (when she was 20 minutes late to one of these same meetings the week prior), I decided to leave. But before I left, my coworker who sent me the nasty email decided to cc my supervisor on an email she sent to me saying she completed a non-immediate task I was assigned because I “didn’t respond” to another person that asked me to do it “in time,” so that person asked her not knowing who it was assigned to.
The person who asked sent me the message 15 minutes prior to receiving that email. Doesn’t seem like it’d be a big deal, but knowing this coworker and after her treatment previously, I had enough. That was the last straw, so I brought all my computer/phone/equipment to the office, sent an email to my supervisor and cc’ing HR telling them I quit, and privately emailed HR letting them know what happened and providing screenshots of the conversations. I provided my email outside of work and phone number if they needed more information. I blocked all my coworkers and supervisors’ phone numbers and email addresses as well, in case of retaliation.
The next day, I get a message on Facebook from an unknown account. It was the same coworker who made my work life hell. She demanded to know if I actually quit. I blocked her immediately. A week later, I check my spam folder in my personal email: my supervisor sent me a horrible email saying how unprofessional I was to not put in at least a 2 weeks notice. And they wonder why I didn’t put in a notice????
I should have paid attention to the red flags, within the first month of my employment a girl had a nervous breakdown and put in a two weeks notice. I thought it maybe was due to something outside of work, but I don’t think it was. In addition, I never got a follow up email from HR, or a phone call. Unsurprisingly, nothing was done from what I know to address what happened. They did not reach out for more information or anything. Maybe I’m wrong, but I’d assume if someone is facing this kind of harassment from your employees, you’d at least want to know what happened in detail.
I am so so tempted to write a review on indeed or glassdoor, but even if I post anonymously it’s not hard to figure out who I am. Today in this sub someone posted a review their sister made, and a horrible message left by one of the current employees in response. I know it’s all bullshit, and they’re lying. But after all the horrible things that happened, I don’t feel like experiencing any more negativity relating to this former job. Maybe I’m just overly sensitive. I already have a hard time not being anxious at my current job, which is much nicer but I’ve been conditioned to believe I’m not a good employee and I am so scared I’ll experience this again. Though my current boss is no angel, they are better than my last one. I want to say I can’t believe this kind of behavior flies, but it seems to be pretty common. This is not only based on the posts on this sub, but from my own personal experience. Believe it or not, this isn’t the first time I’ve had a job like this. But this was by far the worst.
I guess this is all a vent, and maybe a pity party. But this happened almost 5 months ago and I’m still having problems with feeling insecure in my current position. It’s driving me crazy. Those close to me are very reassuring, but I keep thinking if I’m 10 minutes late one time or I miss an email I’m going to get yelled at or fired. I’m so tired of feeling this way, I was able to get over it the last time I experienced treatment similar to this before, but this is still so fresh and was much worse. I just really hope I’ll be confident in my work environment(s) again.