OHIO
( sorry for grammar,I am extremely emotional. it is poorly written)
I have worked for the same company for almost seven years. I have worked in many different positions but transferred over to manager about four years ago. I was manager of a site ( contractor working inside of another company) for years no issue, loved my customer, loved my employees, very little complaints. I took another job managing another sister site ( beginning of this year) took over for a male manager but have always worked in a male dominated industry so no real worries there. Long story short soon after getting settled I started to notice the direct customer I work for was very off putting with requests, unprofessional when on group work text messaging with other people from his team and mine, made threats about me not having a job even after tirelessly chasing requests to keep him happy ect. I went to my direct boss fairly soon after these interactions but we were soon met with another issue of possibly having our contract ended to go with another company or move everything in house to save money. The overall vibe quickly became make the customer happy, don’t push back no matter his tone just suck it up and make him happy. This progressed into him making extreme requests for free with almost 0 turn around time, I never pushed back and finally received the okay to push back on the premise a portion of our company couldn’t uphold the turn around time. He called my CEO making up crazy lies about me not managing my team, not doing my job at all and essentially throwing a fit to get his way so my CEO changed his tune and made his request happen even tho I was just trying to back the company and made me look bad to a customer who was already painting me however he could to get free things or get someone new to deal with ( preferably a man, this is just the tone among those who have worked there for years). Ever since that day of me giving any push back he has made it his mission to send emails with lies about me to corporate, crazy requests directly to my team to cut me out the list goes on and on. I have told my CEO and manager and they continue to say sorry he’s a “asshole” it’s tough times we’re all just trying to make it through.
A month or so ago after he started having some of his team members spend full days fact checking every word that came out of my mouth and my countless attempts for help and my need to continue to go to ensure unemployment I started having bad self harm thoughts. I voiced this to my boss in person and on text multiple times, she escalated it to my CEO who she suggested I spoke to directly on text. He never responded. I ended up self harming and breaking my hand, I received “sorry your going through this” “I’ve done all I can do” “ try to get through this time, they don’t deserve you”
I took a Friday off as a mental heath day to get a cast put on and take a breather, I reported this to my boss ( she ended up taking vacation time the next week ) and it was reported to my CEO.
I came in this week, getting met with employees saying the CEO was asking them questions about “have I been onsite ? Have I been doing a good job? Ect after meeting with the customer who has been giving me issues. It was also told to me that the people on the floor were told of my need to a “mental health day” and were laughing and gossiping on the floor to higher up supervisors. I had another mental breakdown crying endlessly at work asking my CEO who did this and why I cannot be helped. All he did is say he didn’t speak to anyone and btw we are keeping the contract so I don’t need to worry
When all I could say was. The contract? I’m worried for myself and cried and walked away but stayed the entire day. I called my boss and told her in detail of how I have thought of harming myself while crying in the car and she just said sorry she cannot do anything, speak with the CEO. and have a lot of this stuff on text. I know I shouldn’t self harm and that life is worth more than a job, I am trying so hard. Part of this message is just to relate to anyone feeling stuck or they gave so much of themselves to a company and can’t leave while it’s at its worse to ensure my family still can get food and bills can get paid.
If you have been through this, do I have a fighting chance? Or is it true that TECHNICALLY it’s not illegal to be mean and spread lies and target someone without actual discrimination.