disciplinary/grievance
Hello,
I've been in my current job for nearly 3 years.
It's been very difficult from day 1: many of my job duties are very menial and were not mentioned in the job description or at the interview (and that includes 'chores' which were gradually added to my workload over the past 18 months) and my supervisor, who is extremely jealous of me because I am older, more experienced, more educated, and better looking, has been trying to have me sacked or to have me fired from day 1. She makes false accusations to our manager (always behind my back, never in front of me), gives me 'all the crappy jobs nobody else wants to do' (in her own words), ridicules me in front of the others, criticizes everything I do or don't do, gives me an impossible workload (while she chats with the others), and keeps belittling my intelligence, my IT skills, my numerical skills etc.
I started making notes of random accidents during my first week there: I initially intended to stay a maximum of 1 year, until the jobmarket got better, I had saved a bit of money, and I had found a new job. Unfortunately, I still haven't found a new job, and savings-wise, my situation is even worse than 3 years ago, due to increases in my rent.
Our manager cherishes her (think Murdoch-Brookes) and always takes her side against me. In January 2010 and March 2010, during interviews meant to assess my performance, he spent the whole time telling me he didn't see me remaining in the UK another 12 to 24 months (I'm not British).
In June 2010, I asked to go p/t so that I could attend job interviews abroad (I had managed to get short-listed to 3 of them). This was refused, and instead I had an interview where he spent the whole time trying to get me to give my resignation.
In July 2010 I had to take a week off work due to an unexpected health problem. When I came back in August, I had another interview. This time he told me he didn't see me remaining in the UK another 3 to 6 months.
I managed to cling on to my post but I took a couple of sickness leaves until March because my supervisor was putting a lot of pressure on me so that I resign. In April, I had an interview about those sickness leaves: I explained that my doctor found nothing wrong 'systematically', attributed to the problems to stress at work. I didn't mention that I had asked him if antidepressants wouldn't help me, and he replied that what I needed was a new job. I nearly started a grievance procedure about the bullying and the racism I've had to put up with, but decided against it as I was hoping to find a new job before September. I haven't taken sickies since.
At my performance assessment last week, my manager rubbished my work and my productivity (when in May I had to take over a big job from 1 of my colleagues who 'didn't have the time' to do it and in June I had to take over 2 big jobs from that same colleague and my supervisor, on top of another big job I was dealing with myself, + all the 'chores' I do on a daily basis). He couldn't understand why I had been 'sitting in' in the team for 3 years, didn't I want to try something else, he could tell I was not happy in the 'team', I was a 'very difficult' person to deal with etc. He also tried to make me angry by singing the praises of a colleague who stayed 1 year on the team, before being promoted, and who was basically twiddling his thumbs (and refusing to take on any 'chores') and botching jobs which he perceived as menial such as data entry or photocopies, so that he wouldn't be made to do them again. He also justified (I didn't mention it at all) that he hadn't sent me on a single business trip to London (my colleagues get several trips a year) because he thought I would give a bad image of the company, despite admitting that I have a very good relationship with our clients.
Anyway, he told me I had the weekend to 'think it over' and I would have another interview next week. He claims it is not a 'disciplinary' procedure.