This is a case of classic workplace bullying. I work in a rather small office-based division of a company, where there are only 5 of us, including me. My supervisor is manipulative, two-faced, hypocritical, and automatically points the finger at me if something is wrong. If the other woman in my department makes a similar mistake to mine, she is not scrutinized AT ALL. I however, will get a 10-minute lecture for a typo or forgetting to initial something. Stupid, irrelevant mistakes that can be easily fixed and doesn't effect anything or anyone in the end. She will pretend she is nice to everyone else, but treats me like I'm a pebble in her shoe. Whenever I ask her a question, she will answer it in a tone that is demeaning and makes me feel stupid for asking. When I get lectures, she will do it loud enough so that EVERYONE can hear it, which is humiliating. After working there for a year, I was due for a pay raise. Instead, she wrote some false and exaggerated information on my annual revue, and cheated me out of my well-deserved pay raise (which I REALLY needed, I'm too broke to even start a 401k). I can only take what assignments she gives me, which have been very easy ones for the last eight months. THEN, she proceeded to complain in my review that I do not take challenging jobs.
She also enforces company rules like her job requires her to, but turns around and breaks them. For example, taking personal calls on her cell phone, surfing the internet, dress code violations (business casual, but you can see her bra), gossiping for long periods of time, etc.
Basically, she is set out to either make me quit, or get me fired. Either way, I already quit before I got fired for the bull-s**t she fabricates. My last day is in two days, and I have a 5-page letter listing to human resources and the president of the company as to why she should be fired and why they need to instate "no tolerance bullying" policy.
Not only has all this caused me to have behavioral problems, I have had to seek counseling to convince me that all of this isn't my fault, and my therapist says that I need bi-polar or stress medication because I have tried to commit suicide about three times ever since she was promoted to a supervisor position.
I have another witness to testify in my favor and physical documentation to prove everything I claimed in my letter. I guess my question is, what are the chances of me having a case in court, and what are my rights? I know that bullying is not illegal, but economic harassment is, and this situation fits into both. Should I sue the company or her? I really need some advice here!
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