I am going to try to keep this short.
I’m based in South Africa, which is important to know as we have labor laws that protect employees fairly well.
My manager “M” has zero boundaries. She’s the kind of person who will tell you that she loves you and will try to have sleepovers etc. I know her entire life story, from her childhood to her present day.
I have been helping with a ton of projects, working overtime and doing things that we are supposed to be paying contractors for. I save a ton of money for the department, have been taking on extra marketing opportunities. These are 7% of my KPA’s.
Recently she sent me an email that my quality of work was not up to scratch.
I replied with a very mature email and said that I would be focusing on my KPAs for this quarter to make sure that I stick to what I’ve been hired to do. This meant that I would have to decline conferences as they made up 2% of my KPAs. The most recent one was where I’d have to spend 3 days with her and stay at her place.
Anyway, we had an assignment to submit for training and I ran my answer through Chatgpt to check on it and to edit. I didn’t credit the bot. That was my bad. But as soon as I handed it in, I said what I’d done. I have the chat history to prove it from the bot.
But apparently I’ve broken her “trust”. Now, I’ve checked the plagiarism docs. It hasn’t been updated in a while and a language bot is not a person.
Furthermore, she told us that we should use one of our other assignments that had been drawn up by our other contractors so that we didn’t have to double work. That is plagiarism.
She’s done so many other shady shit, and I know that this is a power move and certainly personal.
She’s told me that she is jealous of me in front of other people, I’m more qualified and I believe I’m smarter. People do like me more.
I’m waiting for the shit to hit the fan. But I have so many other things that I want to bring up that is inconsistent.
So, do I get dismissed unfairly and then take it to labor court, or do I bring it up in any potential hearings?
I love my job. I’m thinking that another thing to bring up is that she’s making it hostile to work in her department and I’d like to move.
TL:DR
I have a boss with a personal issue with me and I have enough to nail her, but I need to play the long game.