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Bullying from boss (UK)

I worked for a small company for 10 months. My boss would routinely call me 'Colin', referring to the character from What We Do in the Shadows TV series. If you don't know, Colin is an energy draining vampire that makes people miserable. For several months my boss would bring up this Colin thing throughout the day. Whenever new people came to the office he'd introduce me and then segway straight into literally pulling up clips from the show to show how much I looked like Colin. It got to the point where he asked me if I thought he was being a dick calling me Colin, and I politely said that yeah, he was, but it was no big deal (I did my best to take it as work banter, though he would never take any banter back). He relented on it for a couple weeks and then it…


I worked for a small company for 10 months. My boss would routinely call me 'Colin', referring to the character from What We Do in the Shadows TV series. If you don't know, Colin is an energy draining vampire that makes people miserable. For several months my boss would bring up this Colin thing throughout the day. Whenever new people came to the office he'd introduce me and then segway straight into literally pulling up clips from the show to show how much I looked like Colin. It got to the point where he asked me if I thought he was being a dick calling me Colin, and I politely said that yeah, he was, but it was no big deal (I did my best to take it as work banter, though he would never take any banter back). He relented on it for a couple weeks and then it started to trickle in again.

Somewhat related I got fired from the job because I tried to set a boundary for my work hours, and my boss didn't like that I wasn't 'being respectful' and 'taking advantage of the opportunity' he was giving me. Just thought I'd vent but also I'm curious if there is any recourse I could have? I certainly have witnesses to this behaviour, one of which I'm sure would vouch for me.

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