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How to deal with manipulative coworker
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rstofer:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on September 21, 2022, 04:08:39 pm ---
--- Quote ---Getting fired looks bad on a job application or resume.
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Yep, this is a biggy. Even if you have a cast iron excuse, no-one will read that and just see 'fired'.

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In a small community of engineers, it may make you unemployable.  Word gets around!
tggzzz:
It is a truism that it is very difficult to change the "culture" of a company - either for better or for worse.

If the company tolerates or even encourages bullying and the like, then it won't change until all the people in the company have changed. Why all? Because if 90% leave the remaining 10% will be under ridiculous pressure, and they will propagate bad behaviour to anybody that joins.

It works the other way as well, as "illustrated" in the attached SatireWire article ("Loyal Employees a Valuable Asset, So Now is a Good Time to Sell Them") which rapidly went around HP in the Princess Carly era (2001).




rstofer:
Paul Simon's contribution in a slightly different context

https://youtu.be/ABXtWqmArUU
nctnico:

--- Quote from: Psi on September 21, 2022, 11:29:42 am ---Hm..

Probably how I would handle this is a paper letter mailed to the CEO (or any high-up person that you know will listen).

In the letter you would outline the issue and what dishonest things this person has been doing.

The letter would end in your official resignation with a statement that you enjoy working there and would be very happy to come back but it's either him or you.
Tell them you will give them 1-2 month before you move on.

Then you take some time to do things around the house that you've been putting off, you look for new jobs etc..
But mostly you are waiting for bad stuff to happen at the company, due to you not being there, which proves to them you're more valuable than he is.  By quitting you regain control of the situation.

Either they will call, and you get your job back, or they don't and you move on.

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That won't work. No employer will give an employee that kind of power. Just quit and say/write you got a better job offer elsewhere.

BTW: CEO or any other person at management level won't care about problems between employees; they expect the lower management to deal with that.
fourfathom:
Yes.  Find a new job then politely walk away.  Sending a letter to the CEO or your boss won't accomplishing anything useful.  Not useful to you, or to the company,  Your letter is not going to get them to "see the light" -- they should have already seen it by now.  Given what has happened already you do not owe them a thing.  Do what you must do in order to keep some self-respect, but you are no longer responsible for finishing the current project.  As Paul Simon said, "get yourself free".
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