What to do if You Think You're Being Treated Unfairly By a Boss
In the workplace, as indeed in life, there are a number of situations that have both an ‘in theory’ and an ‘in practice’ answer.
If you feel that your boss is treating you unfairly, this is one such situation. You will be able to find all sorts of employment law advice, but what we are looking to provide in this article is the real life solution.
It may sound wrong to suggest that the ‘official’ employment law advice is not applicable, because it is a good idea to understand your rights in the workplace. However, let us look at the ways in which you can either solve or minimise the problem before you go through official means.
If you work for a large company with strict human resources practices and a respect for operating under the exact rules of employment law, you may find that you are able to go through the official channels. However, if you work for a smaller organisation, while you may be legally entitled to make a complaint or ask for a review of the situation, in practice this may just make it difficult to stay in your job.
Large Company
Larger organisations tend to have the resources to be able to respond to human resources issues in a more regulated manner. Not only this, but it is expected that you follow these regulations and so your complaint or concerns are given the treatment they require.You will be expected to speak to your HR manager in an honest and open way, allowing you to explain how and why you feel as though your boss is treating you unfairly. Your HR manager will then deal with the situation, perhaps with a senior manager and it will be closely monitored.
If you do not feel your personal situation is problematic enough to involve your HR department but you require some changes to the behaviour of your boss and their treatment of you, you could arrange a less formal meeting. Be clear about why you feel your boss is treating you unfairly – it can be easy to look for someone else’s behaviour in a situation when perhaps we should modify our own.
Once you are able to define and illustrate, with clear examples, why you feel as you do, ask to have a chat with your boss. You may ask a trusted colleague to be present, although this makes the chat less informal and more of a meeting. Explain to your boss how you feel, say how it is affecting your work and your confidence. Detail what you would like to change, within reason, and ask for their views.
Smaller Company
In a smaller operation there is unlikely to be the same infrastructure available, so complaints and criticisms rarely have a third party mediator, such as an HR manager.In order to deal with your situation effectively and without making your difficulty with your boss more of a problem than it needs to be, you should be very clear about why you feel they are treating you unfairly. Think about your job and how well you have been performing before you say anything. It may be that you can see how you can modify your own behaviour before speaking to your boss.
If the problem is more serious than you feel able to cope with, it is important that you do bring the matter to your boss’s attention.
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NeNe - 1-Oct-20 @ 2:35 PM
I have currently been demoted in work to accommodate someone who the manager just seems to give into to have an easier life.
Employee 3020 - 29-Jun-20 @ 2:35 PM
Im 65 have copd emphasema. I work in a kitchen and basically my boss cant garantee me social distancing. Would find it difficult to wear a mask. Im not deemed vunerable by my doctor. My boss said why dont i leave now with no pay as i am at retirement age in december anyway.
Kity - 26-Apr-20 @ 3:19 PM
I have Aspergers and I’ve been working in a company for more than six years in that times I’ve been discriminated as a result I’ve moved store I’m a very experienced member of staff can do every job and sell kpis very well In the last 3-4 months I’ve noticed a drop In hours where I bare get over 10where some shifts can only be 3 hours long and no one else has them and where everyone else is still getting same with no major change In there so I when I ask about what’s going on they always make excuses and when I ask if I’ve done something wrong they no and when I do go in they just get me to do the bare minimum where I can be standing and other people can have tasks to do and it’s really getting to the point whereis making me depressed wondering if there’s anything i can do
Ant26 - 28-Nov-18 @ 9:00 PM
I have recently begin working for a nursing home. When I went for the interview I informed them I had severe back problems. And an in-depth picture of what it was.
I was.asked to try to do 4 x12 hour shifts. which I was a bit reluctant to do but they said they were keen to employ me and if I tried it for a few weeks and it gave me problems then they would drop me one day. This job is really strenuous.and includes hoistingpeople who are over 20stone. I have tried to 4 weeks to keep going but it's becoming increasingly hard to continue doing these shifts. I emailed the manager and said that the old.manager agreed to me dropping a day. She has totally ignored my email even watching me struggle and refusing to help me leaving me to hoist and turn these people up to 8 times a day. We are regularly under staffed and have to meet the target of everyone out of bed before 11am but with indedstaffi g it's sometimes impossible. Today I was in sojch pain I forgot.to do something and my.mangef had.me in the office I tried.to explain that the pain is awful and I'm struggling but she totally disregarded it. I have since found out she has given the same job as I do to someone else and allowed them to drop their hours significantly from 4x12 hour shifts to 3x6 hour shifts. And another doing the same job as me permission to start work 1 hour later each day. I have only worked there 4 months and still in my probation tonight my back gave way I am sat here in tears.in agony. I was totally upfront at interview with them about my conditiond. I work hard sometimes through breaks short staffed and my manager avoids me like then plague yet her pets she gives anything to. There is no person in my line of work who doesn't suffer from joint problems. I feel like she's setting me up for a fall as I reported her for speaking about another client to another family who had nothing to do with them and I felt it was breaking confidentiality. I just feel like I'm being singled out by her. I'm even thinking of bringing the union rep in.
Lulu - 11-Oct-18 @ 2:10 AM
I reported a supervisor at work for having kids in the pub after midnight and there was clear camera footage, however my boss never acted on it so staff got upset because this supervisor also speaks to staff horrible! 8 weeks later my boss had no choice but to deal with the matter so the supervisor then went on the sick for a week! She was then moved to another pub till my boss returned off holiday, the supervisor then twisted the situation by saying she was being bullied by staff!! She is the bully but now head office and other pub think we were the bullies! All she got was a verbal warning for breaking the law?? I am now on the sick with stress and staff are just leaving because of this, we feel helpless
Jjen - 23-Jul-18 @ 5:52 PM
I'm desperate and need legal advice ASAP.
I have a investigating meeting next week with my Manager, HR Team, and the Shop Steward, due to a injury on duty and an unfairly treatment;
Kindly read the below email and understand how it happened and please give me feedback on how to handle or answer the questions they might make.
Hope you are all well;
Just to introduce the issue on the subject;
This case arises out of a forklift accident which occurred at JNB GTW on the 20th of December involving myself as a victim of a forklift hit when I was working on a PM shift reporting to Mark Hank as my Duty Manager at that particular month.
The accident happened when I was about to lodge a KQ container which had approximately ±500Kg for a flight KQ0765 containing parcels/shipments of the destinations Kenya-NBO, Uganda-EBB and Tanzania-DAR respectively that I prepared that day.
It was about 21hrs40 when I closed and shrink wrapped the container and pushed to the outbound skid and loaded on a slave pallet that weighs approximately ±200Kg which was inserted on a 5 ton forklift to take the container and lodge at swissport warehouse in order to be loaded at the airline and be uplifted at midnight to the final destination.
Few minutes before the accident, I had spoken to my colleague who was about to operate the forklift and I asked him to borrow me the forklift before he could go to the dolly and fetch the inbound EK container that was brought from the airline and placed outside the warehouse premises; He refused/denied to borrow me the forklift claiming that he needed to fetch the container ASAP and He would borrow me afterwards, then he left with the forklift and went to fetch the container even though I had told him that my cut off time was due and I had to take the container before I could be offloaded by the airline due to late lodging.
When He returned with the forklift, He positioned the 5 ton forklift together with the slave pallet weighing approximately ±200Kg and approximately ±500Kg container loaded with parcels/shipments towards the outbound roller band when I immediately pushed and placed the container on the sliding slave pallet, afterwards I took two steps down the outbound roller band to reach the forklift after my colleague got off, and as I was about to climb the forklift the same reversed and ran over and caught my right foot causing it to be swollen and stiff where I couldn't even fell it and simultaneously hit and pierced my left leg with the frame of the mast of the forklift causing a hole where I could see white bare skin tissue causing a severe bleeding, therefore I practically believe that my colleague failed to apply the hand brake in order to prevent this accident.
At that moment the right front tire of the forklift was on top of my right foot, I immediately screamed so that my colleague could help me and remove the forklift from my right foot, and as I stood with all that heaviness of the forklift, slave pallet, equip
Livito - 19-Apr-18 @ 9:57 PM
I have a investigating meeting tommorrow with my manger a other manager from head office am I being treated unfairly I didn't work Christmas day and I got this meeting then a other colleague did not work New year's day and been asked to make hours up .
Lou - 7-Jan-18 @ 3:28 PM
I am desperate and need legal advice ASAP. I am being targeted and bullied by my boss an d her manager. I was given a verbal warning 4 months ago for being " undermining" because I questioned the safety of a practice that they wanted staff to perform. I felt this practice was putting staff and patients in an unsafe situation and I wanted to assure best safe practice , so I spoke up and emailed staff. This email was written to only staff involved and our immediate supervisors. We are "encouraged" to have a questioning attitude " but are reprimanded when we do. I was placed on notice that I would no longer allowed to be " in charge" on the unit. Something that I was fine with.I recently was allowed to be back in charge after I went to mother Operations manager who gave me the verbal warning and she listed that ban.unfortunately I was just recently given a written formal warning putting me on a 90 day probation which states that I will be terminated if I screw up- for lack of better explanation. I was given a warning for staying an hour after my shift waiting for a result of a test to see if I had to stay for an OR case. Rather than drive 20 minutes home only to have to turn right back around I stayed at my workplace and worked on our unit's time schedule. So when the test came back that the patient did not need surgery I clocked out and went home. My manger discussed this with me the next day and I explained the situation. No real concerns expressed from her other than being mindful of occurring unnecessary OT. And that was the last I heard of it. Now mind you there have been several instances with other nurses within my department being paid time and a half because they were waiting for an OR case to go and slept for 4 hours until the patient was out. Another instance was when two nurses were on call together and left the building while a case was ongoing and then sat around for hours doing nothing - all at time and a half. In both of these instances these nurses never received any type of disciplinary action. The targeting and bullying I am experiencing is that in my instance my boss gave mea written warning putting me on probation for the next 90 days in which I will be terminated if I don' t "make" the grade. Can someone please tell me if this is fair? I do not believe that there is equality in the discipline in my instance. I believe I am being targeted for speaking up. can someone please help me?
Sue - 14-Dec-17 @ 7:50 AM
I have recently got a job which I very much enjoy. I get on with my colleagues, the office culture suits me, and I'm good at the work.At interview, I notified both my line manager and the HR manager (who were interviewing for the position) that I am visually impaired, and, as such, medically banned from driving - I'm not blind, but have no peripheral vision, and so failed the eyesight test for a UK driving licence.I also informed them that, because of this, I was solely reliant on public transport, and they knew at the time that I was coming from a distance (about 30miles) away.There is a requirement to work a minimum number of hours a week, which I was informed of at interview: I said I believed I could just about manage that requirement with bus times (the first bus out to where I work gets me there at just before 9am, with a 10min walk to my workplace, the last bus out leaves at 6.15pm), but said that, if I was falling short, I would be willing to make up the hours owed from home - I have previously worked as a freelance in the same field for 3yrs,and am fully set up to work from home, which I informed both managers of at interview.I was told "Oh, don't worry about that - we try not to ask people to work from home, as we believe in a work/life balance."
I am leaving home at 5.30am, and not getting home until 8.15pm, because of bus travel times.I have once had to walk three miles back to a point with more regular evening buses, because the last bus from the area I work in went straight past me and another individual, even though we were both flagging it down, and both at the bus stop, and I have been involved in accidents twice, walking along the unlit, unpavemented road from my office to the bus stop.I am also, in order to meet my hours requirement at the office, working without breaks - I use computers exclusively, and am literally working 8.5hrs a day with no breaks.By the time I get home, I am frequently too tired to eat, and will just go straight to bed.My wife is disabled, and is becoming stressed at having to try and manage on her own (she has mild cerebral palsy and Asperger's, and was refused PIP, so can't hire a carer to support her while I'm at work, she is not deemed to need funded care, and the reason I had to give up freelance work and look for corporate employment was that she was becoming extremely anxious about a transfer from ESA to Universal Credit, to the point of saying it would be better if she killed herself, because "at least then they can't screw us over by saying I'm not really disabled."
I have asked my line manager if I could work from home, and was told "we'll discuss that another time".At an informal meeting with the HR manager -a routine thing she does with all new hires in the first few weeks - she actually raised the question of how I was managing with the commute.I explained about not being able to take breaks, and that it would be easier if I could work from home part time
In Transit - 26-Nov-17 @ 6:58 AM
There are 11 women which we all do the same jobs, hours but 2 have had their 2018 holiday authorised . This was done without advising the other 9 women and holidays are normally submitted Jan . Others put their request in but told we have to wait until it is discussed with the other managers which will be December. Is this fair.
Polly - 17-Nov-17 @ 7:54 PM
Kae - Your Question:
My coworker (same position as me). Has been given a new piece of technology / equipment that will help the quality of his work. I was not. I feel he is being set up to succeed and I am not. Can I do anything?
Our Response:
Ask your employer why your colleague has been given it and whether you can have one? It might be a trial use before rolling out to other employees etc
WorkRelationships - 30-Oct-17 @ 3:23 PM
My coworker (same position as me). Has been given a new piece of technology / equipment that will help the quality of his work.I was not.I feel he is being set up to succeed and I am not.Can I do anything?
Kae - 28-Oct-17 @ 9:26 PM
I have been working with a company as a caregiver for 10 years. For the last 5 years. I had couple that i was yo take care of. The lady was the actual client, but also did things for the husband. Well about 2 years ago, the husband retired, and they had their son move in with them. We cooked, cleaned,did everything for them. A big 4 bedroom 3 and a half bath, home. Cooking 3 meals a day, for all 3, cleaning for all 3, washing clothes and ironing,grocery shopping, for all 3. And a whole lot more. We would write notes saying everything we do, so they new all we did. That includes taken my client to dr,appointments,hair appointments, family envents. I even have to cook hole thanksgiving and Christmas dinner, for their hole family.recently the ithe care giver was fired,and now the new cargivers, don't want to do all the work. So now they are changing things. Where we don't have to do as much. But the allowed it for so long, I didn't get paid any more, barely maken medium wedge.Feel taken advantage of. Any suggestions?
Overworked - 16-Aug-17 @ 11:05 PM
sorry further to add, the rest of the 2 teams are on rotating shift and my manager did say that its only in his team he has got high number of fixed shifts.
Stressed - 21-Jul-17 @ 1:41 AM
Hi there, our workplace is going into rotating shift starting next month. This is split into 3 teams. Fixed shifts are given to mother's with daycare children and mother with a 13yr old kid. Upon looking on my team, there's only 3 of us on rotating shift while the rest given legit reason are on fixed shift (2 with daycare kids, 1 with 13yr kid, 1 coz of transport, and 2 guys not sure how). when i approached my manager requesting for a fixed shift based on medical grounds, he said I don't have a kid.Hence, I get rostered every 3 weeks and on this 3 weeks i get to work 2 weeks on late shifts, which i feel not fair, as I advised my manager that i am undergoing treatment to be a mother (but i was told I still dont have one). and I cant go through the stress, besides I do have a life outside of work and its unfair if I have to do late shifts just so that the mothers are covered.
pls. advise can this be unfair treatment?
Stressed - 21-Jul-17 @ 1:39 AM
My partner gets paid the same as other colleagues in the department but he is expected to do more. This includes working in areas he is not trained in, and they have received the training. However as they dont feel confident doing the role he keeps being expected to. Whilst he could ask for further training, what he is being asked to do is above and beyond his role. They also do less than him on a daily basis and are kept in the same department, whilst he is moved around, so for example expected to cover their role when off but they never cover his. It is all done in his work day so not working more hours but it feels like he is being put in a vulnerable position covering several jobs but they are not. I have checked under discrimination, which I do not think this is? but thought maybe employment law ?
katie - 17-Jun-17 @ 3:21 PM
i have worked for 11 years at the same company. It was taken over a few years ago and then a restructure of my department last year. I was told in the restructure that I was being promoted and along with my current role I would now manage a team and take on other duties. I accepted this and even upped my working hours. since signing a very generic job description I have learned that whilst my title has changed my level of management hasn't. They have also changed my duties twice and have taken away all my existing clients to give to another member of staff leaving me with only administrative duties and no management of clients. I have expressed my concerns, and I feel completely pushed out of my role. I feel that I have no option but to leave as they have taken all that I was skilled and good at and removed it leaving me with only new duties that I have no experience in and duties that I never expressed I wanted. My job is now being done by a higher management member of staff who is paid twice as much as me. Do they have the right to make my job so worthless that I feel no choice but to resign and do they have the right to take my job and give it to someone else? when I complained I was told I could look elsewhere for a job if I was so unhappy.
pushedout - 2-Jun-17 @ 8:25 AM
I work for a big six energy supplier and last February 2016 the business announced that they were closing the business unit which I worked for down so naturally I applied internally for other roles in an attempt to be redeployed. I was successful in two interviews and went with a role in fitting smart meters. I started the training last May and qualified in September 2016. After qualifying there is a support and mentoring stage usually lasting 8 to 10 weeks. However, as I was moving from one area of the business to another this apparently caused huge migration issues with getting me up and running so I was unable to progress so was assisting a colleague for 33 weeks after having qualified purely because of the incompetency of the company I work for. Other issues I've faced include not being paid at all in Jan 2016, stress to the point I've been signed off work. I got so down I felt the only way that someone would listen would be if I emailed the MD who realised to this email and within 2 days my tablet was fixed. Much to the anger of my senior manger who called me up and was very rude to me. I told him I was very upset and stressed and would be looking to leaving the business to which he replied he "would not get on his knees and beg me to stay". It soon came out he phoned me up as he was ordered to phone me by someone for head office.
I've been offered a new job out of this company and now looking to take legal action
od - 16-May-17 @ 1:29 PM
Diva - Your Question:
I haven't been with my company very long, but was recently promoted to assistant manager. Before the promotion I was a full-time shift supervisor all shift runners a required to work at least 2 closing shifts a week and 1 weekend a month. One of my coworkers a part time shift supervisor with the same requirements. However she refused to work nights or weekends, and my boss who is always talking about "balanced scheduling and being fair to everyone" let her have her way! Since she refuses to work the shifts that she is REQUIRED to work my boss makes me do them! I close 5 nights a week 3 weekdays and Saturday and Sunday! I have a child at home, and I'm the only one of us 3 with a child! This has been going on for the past 7 months and even though I'm the assistant now and I was promised more morning shifts I'm still not getting them. And my sons birthday party is on a Saturday and his birthday is on a Tuesday (my boss doesn't work Tuesdays) I would need both nights off and my boss is letting the other shift supervisor decide if I get those days off!! (Because one is one a weekend and the other at night both of which she refuses to work even though she refuses and gets away with it.
Our Response:
Write and make a formal complaint to your employer. Say that you have tried to discuss it with your manager but have had no success. If the job role requires that employees work at least 2 closing shifts plus one weekend, then that should apply to all those in the same role. If you feel you are being treated unfairly or discriminated against in any way, your employer should be able to deal with it.
WorkRelationships - 2-May-17 @ 12:02 PM
I haven't been with my company very long, but was recently promoted to assistant manager. Before the promotion I was a full-time shift supervisor all shift runners a required to work at least 2 closing shifts a week and 1 weekend a month. One of my coworkers a part time shift supervisor with the same requirements. However she refused to work nights or weekends, and my boss who is always talking about "balanced scheduling and being fair to everyone" let her have her way! Since she refuses to work the shifts that she is REQUIRED to work my boss makes me do them! I close 5 nights a week 3 weekdays and Saturday and Sunday!I have a child at home, and I'm the only one of us 3 with a child! This has been going on for the past 7 months and even though I'm the assistant now and I was promised more morning shifts I'm still not getting them. And my sons birthday party is on a Saturday and his birthday is on a Tuesday(my boss doesn't work Tuesdays) I would need both nights off and my boss is letting the other shift supervisor decide if I get those days off!! (Because one is one a weekend and the other at night both of which she refuses to work even though she refuses and gets away with it.
Diva - 1-May-17 @ 2:15 PM
All the mnorities even ones who fall short of production requirements have received raises. I'm double the requirement and believe this is unfair, very close to quitting.
Fedupwithit - 12-Feb-17 @ 8:59 PM
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Orchard Way, Calladine Park Industrial estate Sutton in Ashfield Nottinghamshire NG17 1JU
Health and safety is Imposed on the work force but it's breach on the management side this is an on going problem there as this is done though the managements advantage also there a lot of deciet going on there when you speak your mind they find away to dismiss you from the Companyas they do this with a lot of there work force as they breached health and Safety with a similar incident with myself they also lied about Money they owed me and Lied about when I started working for them to ACAS then stole all of my tools that I bought out my own pocket.Yet 8 months later they announce redundancies I accuse HR and the management of knowing about this at the time I left the company of there lies and deceit and by paying the union rep of unite off . These people will sink so low as they use dirty tactics and need to be booted out of the company for the good of the company in the future or it will get drag down to there level
Zig - 8-Jan-17 @ 8:23 AM
Health and safety is Imposed on the work force but it's breach on the management side this is an on going problem there as this is done though the managements advantage also there a lot of deciet going on there when you speak your mind they find away to dismiss you from the Companyas they do this with a lot of there work force as they breached health and Safety with a similar incident with myself they also lied about Money they owed me and Lied about when I started working for them to ACAS then stole all of my tools that I bought out my own pocket.Yet 8 months later they announce redundancies I accuse HR and the management of knowing about this at the time I left the company of there lies and deceit and by paying the union rep of unite off . These people will sink so low as they use dirty tactics and need to be booted out of the company for the good of the company in the future or it will get drag down to there level
Zig - 8-Jan-17 @ 8:15 AM
My wife has been working for supercare which is a cleaning company.I don't understand how some companies treat people the next thing some people will be making noise about s.a been lazy.but tell me if you use 1500 for transport and at the end of the month you get paid 1800 why to you have go to go please help me understand. Some times its 2000 sometimes its 1500 who in s.a can stand for this shame on this company its disgusting.
Joos - 3-Jan-17 @ 6:58 PM
My wife has been working in sales for the past 4 years at a music store. She does have a history of being late but always calls in to let them know. She does everything by the books.. yet her emoloyer seems to be singling her out. Not inviting her to company luncheons. Calling her out infront of other employees. Always blamed for minor things.Not being invited for company luncheons so on and so forth. Well today she was suspended for using the computerto download her resume. Now we know she shouldnt be doing that, but she was downloading it to apply for a job openning there in the same building. Same business.She has many other employees who do no call no shows, use the computer for far worse things,they come drunk or hung over. The list goes on. Yet no one seems to be getting in any trouble but her. Shes tried telling her bosses but they just get mad and dont care nore do anything about it. She feels like she will be fired when she goes back to work 5 days from now. What can we do?
Seth - 31-Dec-16 @ 12:20 AM
I have worked for a global company for over a year now. When i started i was working on 2 vessels on there engines. Look i am not a racist ,when another guy( white) came in the company he was immediatly send for training for engines with the guys i worked with and in many cases they tend to give him more project and they tell me that the work has slowed down so will send me but i must just wait but not long they send him with an engineer. Our boss dont care about us like he always say we are a team but treat us different then the engineers like for instance he told them to go home if there is no work but tell us to use our leave days to stay at home we are mechanics but like he say there is no work but what about us who also have personal problems to sort out.
Jera - 14-Oct-16 @ 10:12 AM
I work at a large restaurant chain for the past 10 years. I have over the years come across a few managers that like to intimidate or bully me. When I applied for this job the positions I applied for had already been filled. I got to do the same job only at nights. After 8 years the day shift positions came open. My store manager told me It was mine even though another lady had told her she wanted it. My boss said that would not be right. Well were 2 years in now & I have a new boss that makes my schedule for the past 5 weeks it has been wrong. I have spoken with her twice, she said one the 1st convo that all she was doing was coping and pasting. One the 2nd covo we were discussing a day I had requested of & I wanted to know if instead of working the closing shift 10-4 could I work the back-up (helper) shift 10-2 so as to not loose hours and my surgery was not til 3. She explained that she could not but me in this position as it would not be fair to take away the girl that usually works as my helpers shift. Ok Enter a server who decided she no longer want to serve so she was given my closing shifts and I go the back-up shifts. I am having a sit down Monday with the store manager and the new manager. Over the 10 years this has happened before. Including being shoved by my store manager which has been documented. Having my schedule altered as punishment for leaving early. I was told it was because I did not ask him if I could leave. He was off this day & the manager on the floor said it was fine. I truly fill I am being pushed out for the younger. The girl that got my shifts has not even done the job in over a year. She was only phone support but never trained to do the full positions. Is there someone to call in Chattanooga? Thank you
debra - 28-Aug-16 @ 2:43 AM
My partner is being treated unfairly at work.He is a general manager of a pub.He works for a small pub company with 3 owners and an area manager. He has excelled in all previous jobs including in other pubs for this same company.He works so hard, well over 50 hours in the work place and probably amounts to about 60-70 hours with what he does at home.He has always put everything into his job.His new pub is not doing very well despite his best efforts.There are just too many fundamental things wrong.The food is dreadful.He has told them this and they refuse to listen.Their marketing is terrible and their ideas are too confused.He has no control over these issues as the owners are stubborn and very much involved.There is not even a website for the business after being open for 6 months.They wonder why they are not as busy as other pubs in the area?! They don't seem to know what they want as a group and trying to please them all is impossible. Now they have begun taking it all out on my partner.Horrible emails and text messages. Trying to catch him out by giving him impossible tasks. Changing his shifts all the time.Not letting him do the rota for his own staff.Making him work both weekend days and nights every week (not necessary as he has an assistant).We live above the pub and now they have moved a random person in with us.I feel like they are trying to push him out.He has approached them and asked if they have a problem and they have said no.The operations manager has been extremely rude and unreasonable so my partner talked to the owners about it.Now everything is much worse with all of them.They refused his holiday after leaving the request hanging for weeks.They even refused to let him have a day off for my birthday! I have never seen him so depressed and I worry what he'll do.I can't bear to see him like this.I honestly don't know what he can do to make things better.They don't listen to any suggestions on how to improve the business and it will fail at this rate.It is obvious for anyone to see what they're doing wrong but they refuse to listen and have instead launched a hate campaign on my boyfriend! Help!
H - 14-May-16 @ 10:19 PM
I work for a large corporation. My boss is treating me unfairly. I order office supplies for everyone at work. I am in this small cubicle and recently have asked my boss for a bigger vacant cubicle close to me. I explained to her I get all size of boxes delivered to me and I do not have the room for all of the boxes and have tripped over them a few times and almost fell making it a safety issue. My co worker asked for another cubicle and easily got it, which is a different cubicle than what I am asking for. It is difficult to get an approval for anything from her. She treats me differently than my other co workers. Pls., I need some advise.
jewels - 21-Apr-16 @ 1:07 PM
