I've (F22) been working as a messenger at my new job for about a year and it has been extremely stressful. I caught my manager (F31) crap talking me with her clique a few times, whenever I make mistakes I get treated as incompetent immediately and clique staff no longer trusts me in handling whatever task I made the error in.
Recently the managers father died at our hospital and she started coming to work drunk, calling in sick often or making up excuses like she's going to a workshop etc. Just to stay away from work. Her Clique of mean girls have now started bullying and crap talking her non stop and now she is complaining to me about it. (Literally did the zoning out cat memes face to her in the moment)
I've found her crying numerous time after they've shouted at her to do her job and while they've stopped picking on me and have started with her, I fear that once she's back to her normal self they'll return to crap talking and making life harder for me again.