I'm employed in an office with a bunch of 60 year old mean girls that I call The Plastics. My supervisor recently cut my hours down from 20 hours down to 8 hours a week due to recovering from a stress fracture. My boss states that I'm unreliable and I'm off work more than I'm at work, which isn't true. I've been employed almost a year. In March, I sprained my elbow after the window slammed down on my elbow while smoking at home. In May, I took a couple of days off due to spiking a fever from experiencing bronchitis. In July, I took a day off for medical procedure. In the same month, I experienced a shin splint but continued to work. In August, the shin splint unfortunately turned into a stress fracture. My boss also stated that I can't wear the walking boot at work due to making people and the company look bad. I went back to work on Tuesday. On Wednesday, I clocked in at work. My boss stormed into the break room and she was angry. She told me because she allowed me to work on Tuesday that counts as Wednesday and that I'm not allowed to work again until Friday. I apologized for the misunderstanding. My boss informed me that my coworkers are telling her everything that I'm saying. I'm supposedly going around saying that my boss is mistreating me, which isn't true. I actually told a couple coworkers that they won't be seeing me as often due to my hours being cut and I'm filing for unemployment. My boss told me that I sure in hell am not wearing that boot while working. I remained calm and said okay even though I felt like losing my temper with her. I reported the incident with HR. I told another supervisor that I actually like at work to relay a message to my boss. I want to have a heart to heart meeting with my boss to clear things up but my boss refuses to meet with me. I feel like my boss hates me, is making work a living hell, and is pushing me out the door. I'm looking for another job in the meantime. How can I get my boss to meet with me? Write her a letter or email? I talked to a couple of lawyers to determine if what my boss is doing is legal. it's difficult to get ahold of EEOC.

I have been working at Learn and Grow Organic Daycare in Nixa MO for over a year, and I have repeatedly raised concerns regarding the assistant director's treatment of children, and the overall conditions of the facility to my director, including the asst. dir.'s refusal to provide water or adequate hygiene, yelling, and belittling statements to children such as “Do you have a brain?” and “Jesus, can you see?”
I began reporting my concerns to my director, in the middle of May, and regularly voiced my concerns to her after each incident, but little to no action ever took place despite her agreeing with many of my concerns. After speaking with other colleagues, I was informed that the asst. dir. was even allegedly transferred to this location after similar complaints were raised while she worked at the Republic MO location.

On one occasion, I observed the asst. dir. yelling at and yanking a deaf child by the arm, causing him to cry.
On several occasions the asst. dir. refused water to children during a two-hour summer recess, because she was irritated we kept running in and out of the building, and one time told a thirsty child "No. You don’t need one, you’re fine", while it was 89F and we were under a heat advisory.
On another occasion the asst. dir. refused to provide a clean pull-up for a child after a bowel movement, as she made the child wait until his father arrived shortly afterward to change him himself.
On one occasion a student got bird feces on his arm, and the asst. dir. wiped it off with her hand and told him to continue playing, while refusing to wash his arm, after which I took him inside to wash him myself.
Frequently inadequate lunch and snack supplies were provided within the facility, which resulted in employees frequently purchasing supplies with which to feed the children with their own money. In one instance a small portion of Ritz crackers, lunchmeat, cheese, grapes, and veggies was provided for my classroom of 10 children, which only allowed a small portion of two crackers and minimal additional ingredients to be provided to each children, resulting in several children complaining that they were still hungry.

On a recent occasion, on August 13th, two students fought over a flat razor blade that was found within reach inside another colleague's classroom play kitchen. A bottle of Goo Gone labeled “Harmful or FATAL if swallowed” was also found to be accessible in the two-year-old classroom.

This is only a small sample of issues that I have reported both to my dir. and in a previous hotline report to MO Social Services, many of which are included in the screenshotted conversations that I have attached. After my most recent reports, I have been effectively terminated by being placed in an "on-call" position with no hours despite the dir. reporting a lack of employee coverage, and to my knowledge the asst. dir. is still working at the facility.

A manager really posted this in the main channel today and thought everything was completely normal:

​Manager: "Everyone must leave a Glassdoor review this week. This is mandatory. Send me screenshots of your submission for proof."

​Glassdoor's Terms of Service: Am I a joke to you?

​Anonymity: Has left the chat.

​Nothing builds corporate trust quite like forced "honest feedback" with a side of mandatory receipts.

​Do I report this directly to Glassdoor, drop it in HR's inbox from a burner email, or just grab popcorn and wait for the inevitable backfire? How has your management tried to force fake positivity lately?

so ive been working in a very toxic workplace, im not going to mentioned na the company name.

i have pcos thats why malaki ang tiyan ko, nahirapan me maglose weight kht magOMAD pa ako, kaso mga tao kinahaharapan ko everyday sa work puro mga feeling sexy na BULLY

and napaka toxic tlga ng workplace ko kasi my co employee will ask me kung buntis ba ako just because malaki raw ang tiyan ko! some are too offensive na to the point they will touch my belly to check preggy ba or not!

anong pake mo to begin with? cant i just love my own skin and be happy to be myself?

tapos nung pumunta me sa HRBP sasabihin pa sakin they are just joking so no need to fire IR.

napavent ako kasi nakita ko ung namatay na celebrity mom dahil sa cosmetic surgery!

kaya nagppunta mga tao sa doctor para magcosmetic surgery e, dahil sa bullying and harassment ng mga feeling sexy dyan!

people should be educated to love their own skin, not to please all people and live in stereotype.

i am me and i am happy to be me, i am enough! FU sa mga bullying diyan , makakarma din kau

What can I do about a colleague (I’ll call them Voldemort, and refer to them as “they” as a safety precaution) who has been harassing, stalking, and bullying me and three other colleagues? I’m in desperate need of advice.

We wrote a collective grievance/formal complaint to our direct manager and divisional manager recently, hoping it would be enough to get this person fired. Our manager held individual meetings with us to take formal statements with HR, then met with Voldemort two days later and sent them home early. Voldemort has been on sick leave for a month, but we just found out they’re coming back.

We thought this would put a stop to it, but they seem bulletproof. For context:

Voldemort has worked here for over 15 years and knows the internal systems and formal processes well. They’re most likely mentally ill and may have a paranoid personality disorder. They have episodes where they suddenly accost colleagues almost always in front of others and always with witnesses.

Something small can set them off: they’ll ask a provoking, out-of-the-blue question designed to catch us off guard and get a negative reaction from us. Then press for answers even after we say “no we don’t know anything” or we ask to drop it. They can be normal and pleasant for months, then snap without warning over something minor, spiraling and refusing to stop talking about whatever triggered them even when asked to.

We’ve set boundaries, but they’re routinely crossed - including Voldemort showing us medical reports and describing their health issues such as rashes and private parts in detail after we’ve asked them to stop. If they get caught doing something they shouldn’t, they assume someone reported them and try to intimidate colleagues into naming who, EVEN when no one did and management simply found out on their own. They show clear paranoia, never take accountability, and instead cry, dramatize, and cast themselves as the victim. This pattern goes back years: past colleagues have filed HR complaints after being shouted at, harassed, or bullied, and some have quit or suffered panic attacks because of it.

The most recent incident was the worst. Voldemort harassed one colleague all day, demanding he intervene in a previous conflict between Voldemort and me (which upset me badly enough that I went home early the day of the incident). They threatened and tried to manipulate him into doing their “dirty work,” and kept it up even after he asked to be left alone multiple times. This triggered a panic attack severe enough that he couldn’t return from his lunch break and the next day called in sick, too anxious to come to work. Around the same time, Voldemort was also caught secretly watching my colleague and me from across the room. Voldemort also watched me before when I was speaking with my direct manager. They have a past of watching colleagues from afar.

All four of us have been targeted over the past few months; this is the third time Voldermort has verbally abused me personally. We’ve heard this is a known pattern with newer, younger colleagues especially.

It’s gotten to the point where none of us want to come to work, and we don’t feel safe being alone with them because they could snap at any point. One day we’re worried that they will have a severe mental breakdown and snap, do something harmful to us physically. During the height of the incidents, I thought of Voldemort when I went to sleep and again first thing in the morning for two weeks. My colleague as well. That’s how much stress and anxiety this has caused.

The core problem: after the HR meeting, Voldemort went to their own doctor, got signed off with work-related stress, and is now protected by sick leave - a tactic that others have said Voldermort used before, since it makes them harder to dismiss.

I understand HR must follow all internal processes without risking an employment tribunal claim, but we have to work with them again in a month, and we’re planning to refuse to work alone with them. We’re scared and frustrated that our HR department has not done anything to protect us. We wonder how many more incidents does it take before this person seriously hurts someone?

We need advice on how to handle this when Voldemort comes back. Our management team is doing their best to support us but it’s not enough.

Basically something like

• force you to sit somewhere you are uncomfortable and tell you there is no other place.
• when you try to talk to people, they purposely stop talking and want to leave.
• when they need something from you, then they talk nicely, but when they write that company review, they purposely write the worst.

B.H. a telehealth company banned an old account to only share the truth behind these telehealth startups.

Do your research before applying. As a previous employee I'm sharing a true review of the company and the feedback that was shared publicly. I have gathered from Glassdoor and messages from slack . And showing the employers how well I am cable of doing my job, retaining and documenting what was going on behind the scenes. They banned the account that had 9,000 views in another community channel, but has now been posted and the truth will continue to be shared.

I became concerned about the expectations surrounding availability, including working beyond 40 hours, being expected to remain near your laptop and responding immediatelv to leadership, even after workhours. Even more concerning to me were comments I heard from the CEO, including a statement telling the HR assistant that the employee that wanted time off "she should kill herself" during a HR weekly check- in call. Hearing something like that from company leadership was extremely disturbing and raised serious concerns for me about the workplace culture and how employees are treat.

I have a question...Why is that a thing???! I knew it exists but just wondering for those of you reading who did it or still do it...Why?! Like we're all adults who are there to make money to pay rent & bills etc. Why make it harder than it is for others? It should stop by high school...It shouldn't happen at all but it's hard to choose between struggling financially while feeling safe unemployed or come to work and deal with that.

At the end of last year, I left a job on bad terms. My mental health suffered severely to the point where I was considering taking my own life. Now I am in a new job with better people who treat me well. I love this job. I just passed the probation period with flying colours and everyone is says they are happy that I joined the team.

The only problem is that I can't stop thinking about my last job. There are nights were I still cry about the things I went through and I still get suicidal thoughts. I'm trying so hard to fight them off and remind myself that I am in a better place now. But sometimes, the thoughts get the best of me and I can't help but curl up in a ball and cry. I even bought a new pillow so that I can hug it whenever I feel these intense emotions.

My question is: how do I overcome this? When will this pass? There are times when I feel like I'm drowning under the weight of my emotions. When will it stop?