My work situation is toxic as all fuck. Without getting into too much detail: I'm in a data entry job in which the gal that trained me apparently did a spectacularly crappy job (despite two good reviews by the shitty boss lady that I work for) before she bailed for greener pastures. Shitty Boss Lady panicked when she had to take over the half of the data stuff that I didn't do, having never done it before despite being the project director for the grant that this job is tied to.
In a space of around a week and a half, I went from comfortable and encouraged at my job, feeling like I had a good grasp of things, to being written up and called in to a meeting in which one of my co-workers was dragged in as a witness, and threatened with being fired. I'm a gentle sort of dude, and I take pride in my work; all of this brought me to tears. I was also written up in the report as being “unable to control my emotions”.
I stood up for myself and stated that having my co-worker there, as someone else who reports to her, was not at all okay with me and that I wanted a neutral party if she needed a witness. She made ME find someone else, which I did…as soon as this person agreed, she backpedaled on the meeting and told me we'd “discuss it later”. Two hours later, I get called BACK in to her office to basically be told that HER boss made her back the fuck off and withdraw both the write-up and the final warning. No apology of any sort, just a curt “You're lucky, I'm supposed to train you the way I want to see things done.”
Ever since then, about a month, she's just been the worst. Constantly nitpicking my job despite making no mistakes in the data (and despite the obvious blunders she's made in the data ever since “mastering” it…her words, not mine), micromanaging me literally by the hour. When she's not doing that, she's telling anyone that will listen how great her new systems are and how she's solved all kinds of problems with the data on her own (her systems are meh, no better or worse than what I was taught initially, and the problems remain, she's just mostly pretending they're not there).
I'm looking for other work; had a couple of interviews that didn't pan out, but I'm not giving up. Pretty sure she's pushing me to try and quit before I get fired, but at this point, I'd view that as a victory. I HATE getting up to go to that place every morning. I'm always anxious now, constantly buzzing in my chest, and I already deal with clinical depression (managed, though it's definitely harder right now).
Going to keep putting in applications during my lunch break (working a second gig from home in the evenings half the week ), and just do my best. I'm just fucking tired of being treated like shit.