Signs You Are Being Sabotaged at Work

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[nalgasaplaudiendo]

It just comes down to this: People are trash, they are petty and stupid.

[millertime]

It’s amazing the creativity it takes to be malicious when these people could just use that effort toward the work.

[Christ_Is_Life-]

Alienating a team member by not speaking to them, avoid giving eye contact, not responding when you say hello or goodbye, team members excluding you from conversations, leaders openly engaging other team members in conversation’s and teaching new skills praising them in front of the team while you get reprimanded and yelled at n front of team members. Asking you to sign arbitration agreement and handbook after already signing it when you where hired. Getting scheduled for fewer and fewer hours. I can go on.

[Syhk]

Signs: Late info, wrong info, withholding info with no apology or accountability, keeping me in the dark in key decisions, not included in meeting that are vital to my work. I planned to leave but They made me redundant in the end.

[BibleTumper]

Grouping up on an individual on the job is just terrible. I'm currently going through it. I feel isolated but, I'm a loner anyway so their effects fall short. I'm stressed out a lot but I'm hanging in there, I've given up on all of my ambitions there, that has saved me from deep depression. I'm that shadowy figure in the background.

[NateNittii]

I’m definitely last to know and often have to hound the situation for multiple weeks just to figure out what changed or took place

[Bar_Bar]

Like when a coworker who temporary moved to shift manager didn't notice me there's an important meeting coming on. Everyone knew except me. Later on my work manager yelled at me on the phone for not attending the meeting. I got so mad on both of them especially the one who didn't notice me. The manager took his words bqck after i got mad about him yelling at me on the phone. I was too nice and avoid arguments until that day.

[AlexKarasev]

A lot of these coincide with simply being not good at your job / not trying hard or caring enough (which btw constitutes some career advice nowadays).

With that said, many highest paid workplaces are inherently a race to the bottom ethics wise in terms of who gets the attention of bosses (who'd won that same race earlier!!) and the promotion. If everyone is highly driven and highly qualified (in reality, over-driven and over-qualified for the highly paid job at hand - b/c such an employer has had the pick of the litter when hiring), there being a surplus of qualification and drive and such effectively commoditizes and removes these qualities from consideration for promotion. (In reality of course the better person can still produce the better result but it's not like they give two people the same exact project to be done twice over & results compared in a qualitatively valid way).

What's left is the "leadership qualities" which is in fact a euphemism for "do people like you, like in kindergarten" (like a colleague once very astutely put it - who'd later made MD, by the way). When "likability" is weaponized in a highly competitive environment, this video's signs of being edged out correspond to you ending up on the losing end of this particular contest.

And if you re-double the volume and quality of your work, that just makes everyone resent you more - you're making it harder for everyone while not playing their accepted game. The game that made your bosses and their bosses etc, what & where they are today. So at best they'll be like "X is a great worker, it's too bad she's not a team player".

[summersummer]

I recognize these as well, especially from inexperienced and insecure managers. Not sure how they got the people manager position to start with. Peter's principle? This is not fun and I don't think there would be opportunities to advance my career under the circumstances. Any advise? Quit? Is it ever possible to bypass and get recognition I deserve?

[adiscourse]

Can you please do a video on your supervisor sabotaging you.

[manumusa]

They should be fired, no one should put a company at risk by sabotaging other people work.

[Civilian_wardrobe]

I am actively dealing with a malicious chess master that I believe is executing a multi stage game that will result in my termination or resignation. I’m doing everything can to keep my nose down and do my job but it’s not working. No body sees it but me and I’m beginning to accept the inevitable. Hopefully I can make it through the year so it won’t look bad on a resume later.

[erockbrox]

I entered grad school and within my office there is around 20 grad TA on a scholarship.

I had a scholarship given to me by a certain professor, then I had another TA acting like he was my friend trying to tell me NOT to trust the professor who gave me the scholarship. And then he was trying to make appointments for me to get a schedule change.

Then after a while the TA acted like he wasn't even my friend.

These people are crazy. And they will try and take your scholarship away and try and screw you in every way.

[belindatapia]

I was Sabotage by an Administrator at a high school.

He became my assigned Supervisor.
December 14, 2021
Same day the mainline was found at Principal Secretary desk.

I was at reception area. Mainline entrance of High School.

Mainline was unassigned unas and rerouted to Department of ASB Students playing with phone. I caught emergencies not knowing.

November 18th, 2021. What had been done.

Then Administrator had access to reception calls and gave access to everyone... my coworkers.

Except me. More ridiculous things.
And meeting after meeting.
Making no sense.
Evaluation unfair
Reprimanded and Relocated
Then Human Resources Director sent me home.
Pending on Evaluation Fit for work?

I have been Harrassed Sabotage my work Performance Scheme of my coworkers.

[adasanti]

For me it was that after 3 years of working they all declined references.

[Civilian_wardrobe]

Question is what play do you have? Other than leaving and giving the culprit the win.

[jepnprh]

My lead is like a child. Had 1 flying monkey come after me and when she got exposed she protected herself with her own group of flying monkeys. Its getting to a ridiculous level.

[jldeshayes]

c'est mon intuition, mais après ça, ça risque plus d'arriver

[a.d.b]

Supervisor doing all these things plus talks to me loudly as if I'm inept with the office door open. Also accuses me if non performance in meetings.

[adamd]

Yes, I had an ex-employer who would change their story, withhold information, not tell me things until the last minute...

I took it in stride, thinking that it was the nature of the job and that sometimes things were lost in translation and chaotic so I did my best to adapt.

Until I was hauled into the managers office one day and fired, citing my "mistakes" and "not getting it" due to my having to wing it with the chaotic, ever-changing workplace.

Good riddance.