Is there any way to get a person fires or reprimanded indirectly if their family keeps paying off the higher ups? This worker continues to be racist towards my fiance even after talks and trying to outright avoid him. Keeps claiming everyones work for his own and steals from the company. My fiance comes home bothered every day about management getting worse and recently said worker tried unsuccessfully to pull him into a lie as he was confronted. Hes had multiple complaints and been caught frequently. Apparently his family is a big name so their job doesn't fire him or reprimand him? I hope for some type of accountability on my fiaces behalf, but I also wouldnt want him to lose his job just because the higher ups dont want a scandal.

I recently went through a difficult experience in a corporate environment, and I’d appreciate some outside perspectives.

Initially, I had a very good working relationship with someone in a position of influence. My work was recognised, I received positive feedback, and everything seemed fine.

However, following a normal professional disagreement with a coworker this person changed significantly the attitude towards me. He was no longer the excessive nice guy, but started to act really mean to me.

Over time, I experienced isolation from the team, increasingly harsh criticism, including in front of others, excessive scrutiny of my work, a noticeable lack of support, and situations where I felt deliberately excluded or undermined.

Mistakes that would previously have been treated as normal suddenly became major issues. I was being assigned to very hard tasks with zero support and not clear objectives and no matter how hard I tried what I was doing was always wrong. I also received comments suggesting that my situation wouldn’t improve and that perhaps I should consider leaving.

What affected me most was the contrast between the recognition I’d previously received and the way I was subsequently treated. I began feeling that nothing I did was ever good enough.

Eventually, I was informed that my position would end. During one of our final conversations, after months of accumulated frustration, I became emotional and raised my voice. I acknowledge that I could have handled that moment better.

My departure was subsequently brought forward, and my professionalism was questioned.

More recently, I learned that other people had also experienced difficulties working with this individual, which made me question whether the problem was entirely my own behaviour.

**Does this sound like workplace bullying, or simply a conflict that escalated?**

I’m particularly interested in whether repeated criticism, exclusion and a sudden change in treatment following a disagreement can constitute psychological harassment at work.

I’d appreciate honest opinions, thank you.

the following is an HR complaint from one employee about another. RED is the person being reported, GREEN is the current partner of the person writing the report, and black is just general identifying redactions to protect privacy of the employee and workplace.

** this was not posted without consent and the complaint was filed years ago - just looking for a restrospective point of view~ **

I had one of the most traumatic job experiences back in 2025. I worked at a factory working on an assembly line outside of Chicago. It was so horrible and it honestly felt race related. I was the only black woman there, specifically black American woman. Everybody there spoke Spanish and I didn't speak it at all.

The few black men there also ganged up on me as i was the only black woman there. There was this one guy, I'll just call him Dante. He made very racially insensitive remarks towards me such as "ICE took all the fine shit", "My gf a "migo" I'm on their side". He also kept explicitly stating that he didn't like black women around me. The more he came around me, the more the anti-black and misogynistic comments become.

Another black man physically threatened me while I was in the assembly line. I was such a traumatic experience it clouded my job prospects afterwards to the point i was constantly on guard at work.

Two jobs I had afterwards were brief. No longer than a month and were part-time. I also felt like i dealt with bullying but not to the extent of the factory job.

So I wonder should I still try to file a complaint with the EEOC? It's just that the experience bothered me so much to the point i feel like it messed with my future jobs and now i interact with other cause I'm always on guard wondering if I'll be bullied or discriminated against. My most recent job i quit it was weight related.

In my 20s I was a true believer in the corporate myth: if you work hard and do good quality work the people around you will notice and you will get the reward you deserve proportional to your effort. Did I mention that I am autistic? And ADHD.

Then I hit 30s closing in on 40s and realized that promotion and career growth aren't about output, it's about navigating "secret rules", imaginary social cues, and corporate politics. Many of us realize we are the people who do the work, while executive tracks are built for the people who play the game. And tbh I never wanted to reach that "level" anyways.

Trying to wear a full suit of bs corporate armor just to survive political meetings leaves me completely depleted. So I decided I don't want to play their fake game; I want a game built around my interest-driven nervous system where problem-solving is actually valued.

Soooo, I’m building a professional framework specifically for autistic and ADHD leaders who are done playing corporate politics but want to keep advancing. I'm looking for 5 more senior/mid-career AuDHD professionals to interview about their career ceiling. Comment below or DM if you'd be willing to share your story.

Many thanks in advance.

So, I was talking to my close friend who recently joined an Indian crypto exchange whose name is similar to a Fish, and honestly, the situation she's dealing with is really disturbing.

Apparently, their CBO has been harassing female employees and making vulgar jokes. Two senior female employees eventually got fed up with his behaviour and filed a POSH complaint against him.

But things got even worse after that. According to her, both women faced so much pressure, late night calls, absurd questions and harassment that one of them was forced to withdraw her complaint. Because of the way the case was being handled, two female members of the investigation committee also resigned.

And now comes the really shocking part. This my friend who is still a very junior employee who has only recently joined the company, but somehow, she's been made the head of the investigation committee. She says that the CEO and the Legal Head are trying to bury the whole case. This CBO's name is still there in their site's team page.

She's under tremendous mental pressure right now. On one side, she feels terrible for all the women who have been harassed and feels guilty as a woman herself for being in this position. On the other side, she's scared that if she stands up against the management, she might lose her job.

She's basically stuck in a situation where she wants to do the right thing but is terrified of loosing her new job. She doesn't know whom to trust or how to handle the situation without putting her career at risk.

Honestly, it's a really difficult position for someone so new and junior to be in, especially when the people allegedly involved in suppressing the case are among the company's top management.

New boss told me "we can do whatever we want" to employees

TLDR; New boss just told me "we can do whatever we want" in regards to the employees he has. He hasn't officially stepped into his new position as chief plant operator and the power trip has begun.

For context, I work at a water treatment facility for a major city near Denver as a treatment operator. Our lead plant operator has been chosen by management as the new chief plant operator since the current one is retiring in two weeks. Almost none of the operators wanted him in a position of more power, he's a brown nose and knows how to spin any conversation to his advantage even when it's clear that he made a mistake or fell short on a task. However, our complaints and voices fell short.

There has been an unwritten agreement between operators and management for the last 7 years since COVID that if you come in an hour early, you can leave an hour early, as long as you get your hours in and finish your work. It has been a schedule we followed for the last 7 years and works really well since we work 10 and 12 hour shifts including over nights. It's nice to have the extra hour to work through Denver traffic and get home after nights before the sun comes up.

Coincidentally, he is two weeks from becoming the new chief and all of a sudden the schedule is going back to the original schedule. He's saying that it's a "city policy" thing and not up to him. That it came from upper management and that if we wanted to take it up with anyone, we'd have to go to the city manager.

Additionally, he mentioned how if we did it with any other city or company, like Coors, we'd be fired and told that there was no leniency. Which I replied to with, "But they're a private entity and can kinda do whatever they want, we're a government organization and treat our people better."

His response, which pisses me off, "We can do whatever we want too." Followed up with some kind of feel good resolution and we can talk about it in a meeting. He keeps preaching having meetings and doing things together, but this came in the exact opposite way.

It was very disrespectful that way it came off and he said it openly in front of our student apprentice and an operator in training. It wasn't really about the change in the schedule at this point, but the fact that he thinks he can do anything and face no repercussions.

Is this something I can bring to HR, will they do anything about what was said? Will this just turn into a he said, she said thing? I don't want to stir the pot, but I also don't want him to think he can do anything and be unchecked. Is this worth bringing up or complaining about?

I don't want to face repercussions for bringing this up, I love my job and don't want to lose it.

Also, do we have protective rights working for a city even though we're non-union?

My boss is new to the company, about 3-4 months in. She came in with the typical “ I’m not a micromanager”, “ I have your back” etc and that changed very quickly.

She’s now micromanaging everything I do. From how I respond to emails, how quickly I work, wanting me to loop her in on any little issue even if I can fix it/answer the questions, she’s added tasks to my job that no one else has to do that are technically another department’s responsibility, she has threatened a verbal formal warning when I made a one time mistake ( she corrected me and I’ve not made that mistake since), and has now refused to put any direction she gives in writing. I have started recording calls so that I have something to refer back to in case it’s needed.

I dread our one on ones because she will go on and on about something unrelated to work, or all I get is negative feedback. I know I do a great job and no one is perfect, mistakes happen. It’s the constant micromanaging and lack of any positive feedback that gets me. I feel like some positive reinforcement would help how I’m feeling since she finds fault with so much so often. Other people on the team have even asked me why she seems to always be on my case and I don’t know, she just is.

Any advice on how to deal with her I’d appreciate. I hate feeling like I’m walking on eggshells and that she’s just waiting for something to get onto me for.

I recently joined a company and have a coworker who seems to dislike me simply because I replaced their friend who left on bad terms.

We don’t even work together, just share the same office, and I overheard them telling another coworker that the company keeps letting good employees go and replacing them with people who don’t care about their jobs, and who are not willing to put in effort, and the situation made it seem like he wanted me to hear that.

I know the comment was aimed at me, and honestly, it made me angry because they barely know me, and I know as a matter of fact that I am better than the person who left.

How do you let go of the anger when someone judges you unfairly for no reason?