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Continuation of Imcompetent Boss Trying to destroy Career

Posted by: Michelle48111
Date: 5/3/2005 5:12:28 PM

Hello all,

Update on situation. After notifying the President of my company about issues I was having with my boss, he asked me to go through an investigation process in HR. I have done so and given HR my documentation, which is substantial. My employee has also gone to HR with her own documentation concerning issues relating to my boss. Please see email below for the full story. However, it has now been over six weeks since writing to the President and almost a month since my meeting with the HR representative and nothing has changed. My boss continues to blind copy me on projects for which I am responsible and to date he has not met with me to discuss my performance evaluation. In fact, he missed all deadlines to write my performance evaluation. When I asked the HR person whether in fact this was the case OR perhaps there was a mistake in the system where my performance evaluation was lost, all she has done is redirect me to my Supervisor, saying all questions must go to him. She has done this twice now. As his employee, I do not have the power to force him to perform his duties as my Supervisor. Frankly, it angers me that I am being redirected to him when the reason I am in HR to begin with is because he DOES NOT perform his duties even at a minimal level as a Supervisor. I am concerned, of course, about possible backlash.

Any advice please? Do they want me to become so frustrated that I just quit (problem solved); however, my employee has also filed a formal complaint against him in HR. Should I email the President again and inform him that nothing at all has changed in my situation?

Pls help!

I've worked for four years for a person who is widely known to be incompetent in my company. I did ok, using most of the strategies on this site, then my boss was reorged under a powerful person at the company who does not like me. At the same time, I attracted the attention of the new president of the company and became recognized as a company leader. This threatened my boss even more than he already was and he has done his best all year to make me invisible by actions such as blind copying me on projects in which I am directly involved, refusing to permit me to attend meetings or be part of discussions etc, OR keeping me in the communication loop, which in general, was always part of his incompetence. I have also been threatened by him and indirectly by his boss not to talk to the President or other high level leaders. Recently, my boss gave me the lowest MBO rating I have ever received and then refused to discuss his rating in any detail with me.

I have been trying to get a transfer to another department for almost a year now with no success. At this point I would take anything. I have discussed these issues with HR as well.

Finally, as a measure of last resort I wrote to the President and asked for help confidentially. In short, he and the head of HR want me to make a formal complaint and have a mediated discussion with my boss in the room, yet will not offer any promise of transfer to another department. Basically, I was told that my boss also has rights and there are two sides to every story. I have a file of email messages where my boss has blind copied me or and/or taken me off email chains on projects for which I have direct responsibility. Obviously, I have been as not been as effective this year as I could have been because of this. & my boss has cost the company a lot of money over the years but like I said, has been protected.

I also know that at least one other employee has discussed similar issues with HR and her boss has sent documentation to HIS boss on what he did to her (basically scapegoated her for her department's failure). I mentioned this to the President and the head of HR but they said that since I was the one who had come forward to the President, I must be the one to make the formal complaint. I feel betrayed because I don't think HR can do anything or else they would have already. The President said this would be different because his office will be involved but would not make any guarrantees of anything.

I feel that I am being made the sacrificial lamb here with not guarrantees of any safety. Yet if I don't go through with it, there's no way to prove any of my allegations, even though I had my folder with documentation sitting in front of me in the President's office.

Thoughts, please? I'm desperate enough to resign but really can't afford to and my family and I wanted to stay in the area.

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