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Ask HN: What constitutes actionable workplace harassment?
4 by mgarfias | 5 comments on Hacker News.
Hello HN, I need some advice here: bossman is not fun to work for. Raises his voice in meetings, gets upset, and fails to listen to what I have to say. I’ll point out a problem with how we do things, and he says I’m complaining. Also completely unreasonable with my time: mandatory meetings at 7am, and then 7pm. Sometimes with little warning. Frequent calls after hours, on weekends, when I’m trying to enjoy time with my family. Starting to get PTSD from it. Awhile back he threatened to fire me for things like being blocked by other things. Last Friday night, I was part of a deal to migrate an AWS EMR cluster from Intel instances, to graviton. My end went fine. A pair of apps was having issues coming up. I was released as I was done. I made sure to let everyone know that they could call me and I’d come help. The next afternoon, Saturday, I got a call from bossman. I was in the middle of a home project that has been repeatedly delayed due to work things happening off hours. I didn’t answer, and was left a vm That I can only describe as psychotic, where I was threatened with being fired due to the “failed migration” - no room for human error, didn’t follow SOPs, maximum punishment of firing, under investigation, but the co prides itself on being very fair (???). At this point I had assumed the apps with issues were back up as I’d had no comms to say otherwise. None. Not an email, Not a slack msg, no one had called looking for help. I was very concerned. So, my question: at what point does this become actionable harassment? My actions so far: fwd vm to HR (after having previously talked to them about the threats). Also sent vm to a director level dude outside of my chain of command, that went to his vp, and the CTO with this. I’d add that we’ve lost at least 3 people since this guy took over, and morale absolutely sucks in my group right now. And yes, I am TOTALLY, looking for a new gig. I thought I had something lined up, but the department was given enough headcount after fiscal year end and reqs had to be shuffled around and my position was tossed over board. I intend to vote with my feet, but in the mean time I. We’d to protect myself and my fam. Advice kindly requested.