I am a licensed Electrician. Until about 3 weeks ago I was employed in electrical maintenance at a major school district in Washington state. I worked there for a little over 1 year as a Full Time Employee. With about 6-9 months as a Temporary Employee status. The School District I worked for pays well bellow the industry standard for people in my line of work in this area but, they also offer vacation and sick leave which isn't normally available to people in my industry. So all in all it's kind of a wash but, I made much less money last year then I could have made if I had been working for a normal employer.
I recently quit due to being fed up with a pervasive environment of what I felt was harassment from what I would describe as a Social Bully supervisor. When I did my exit documentation I wrote down a complaint about what I felt was a hostile working environment. However subsequently neither management or my union rep contacted me about this complaint. It seemed a little odd to me that there was no follow up on this matter.
Then recently I found out that they called someone who is a close family friend of another supervisor to fill my position. Then upon further reflection I noticed a pattern where people had quit working,where laid off or, re-assigned for my employer after working for the Social Bully. I actually had few conversations with some of them and, one even warned me previously about that supervisor. I even had that supervisor tell me how they were trying to "get" some of the other employees I work with my enforcing certain work policies on them. However I notice that they selectively enforced these policies only on the people they wanted to.
It is my feeling that certain people at this employer where using this supervisor to "get" rid of certain undesired employees and, that I was targeted by this harassment behavior in order to make room for another worker who had less seniority then me.
The reason I feel this way is that there was no follow up on my exit complaint and, there seems to be and established pattern that certain people are complicate with the Social Bully's behavior.
The past few weeks I have been in turmoil over my decision to quit work. The harassment was what ultimately forced me to make what was essentially an economic decision to leave. I pretty much can get another job when ever I want. However I feel as if I can't move on because I can't come to terms with what happened and is most likely continuing to happen at my former employer. I'm pretty sure that people are still suffering and will continue to be victimized by this person's behavior.
I feel I should either do something or continue to move on. However I don't really feel that there is a way to "win" the situation. It doesn't help that my self esteem took a big hit after I failed to resolve the situation.
12 Mar 2016, 10:42 am
