COO and HR Manager in cahoots to push me out
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COO and HR Manager in cahoots to push me out
i have been with my company for almost 12 years - started out as a consultant for 1.5 years and eventually hired on as a permanent employee about 10.5 years ago.
Both the HR Manager and COO are relatively new to the company (less than 2 years). In all my over 30 years of working, I have never seen so much harassment and overt discrimination ever.
From the very beginning, I was their target to push out of my role (manager of a department). They joined forces to create a plan to get me out. The problem is that it was so overt that I am surprised that the HR Manager hasn’t taken a step back and say wait a second, let’s assess how we are going about it.
They have reassigned a lot of my workload. I report to the COO so he did most of the reassigning, but the HR Manager injected her 2 cents when she should be objective, my COO sends me harassing emails, literally stood in front of me during a group picture so I could not be seen in the photo, overtly favors others that are the same over me. He has no ethics as I have caught him in lies many times. He documents everything in terms of dates, but he doesn’t know that I also do my documentation. He shuts me down in his emails to me and with others included and tells me not to respond but just should do what he tells me to do. He treats me like I don’t have rights and I do not have a voice. I also overheard an employee saying a racial epithet to her boss in the hallway. Not to him, but in reference to something. The culture is very racist and harassing and I am trying to do my best to gather all evidence that I can gather before leaving.
I have kept calm for the most part, while documenting EVERYTHING.
I will be filing a case against the company and maybe individuals.
My question is if anyone has filed a discrimination and/or harassment case, please let me know what the courts are specifically looking for as I want to make sure I have not missed anything.
i have heard that discrimination is difficult to prove, but I believe I have a case mainly because of the overtness of incidents that have occurred, thus providing me with what I believe to be strong documentation.
I am planning my exit from the company and applying to jobs. I now need to organize my documents starting with the primary 4 individuals that play an important role in this case.
I believe harassment may be a little easier to prove because I have the barrage of emails that were sent to me.
if anyone has any insights to share, I would appreciate it. Thank you.
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