Thanks for your support ladies! Luckily (I think) it's not sexual harassment. The reason why I say "I think" is because I feel like I can identify that WAY easier then bulling harassment. When it comes to bulling harassment I feel like a tattletaler.
There is this girl I work WITH who thinks I am way under her. She has her PhD and I don't, so that is where she gets it from. I guess you can say she leads a project, but she was given that role and then it got taken away because she couldn't get along with people. Seeing that I am just a bench scientist and younger, you can place me as "lower on the ladder".
She is constantly bulling me. She blames me all the time for her not getting her work done. Since I manage the lab (aka. do the bitch work in the lab, make sure things are clean, stocked, autoclaved, maintenance to our equipment, along with my own testing...) she will get rude with me if I don't have things exactly the way she wants it. Well I work for about 10 people in this lab and they all have different ways of doing things. Well I have called numerous amounts of meetings to discuss a central way to do things and she never comes to the meetings, so she has to abide by the way I do it. Well shes not happy about that....
exp of something she emailed me: "I never want to be put I the position where I cannot make media when I need it again." Blaming me for her not being able to do something.... Anyways that might not sound bad, but its from a string of issues for the last 4 years. She would talk to me in the hall about testing something for her and I would ask her a questions and she would walk away in the middle of my sentence and such. Shes just rude to me.
I have asked my management to get involved for the past 4 years and they have just pushed it aside.
Well yesterday was my last string...
She put a meeting on my work calendar for just me and her. I asked her what it was about via email and she wouldn't tell me. If it was about testing then I am ok meeting, but if it was about her issues I didn't want to meet without management involved. I went to the meeting and she slammed the door behind me (she has no right to have a closed door convo with me) and started going at me about how it is inappropriate to be going to management and they don't want to deal with me and that I am the problem here.... Then she said to me "stop talking behind my back because it gets back to me, and if you don't you will have worse problems"....
Therefore, I went to someone higher up about the threat... I hope things will get worked out. I just can't handle the way she treats me. There is more to the story, but I don't want to bore you all too much. Lets just say she has gone through 4 tech's in 5 years....
She turns two next month! Growing up so fast. LOL! She looks so sad in that picture but her little nubby tail was going about a thousand miles an hour.
lol.
