Second toughest in the Infants

Here's the sort of fine establishment I work for!

We share facilities with another department, one person worked for both departments (paid by them; she preferred being with us!). She left two months ago.

Our merry little band was told to put our heads together and think up some new working practices, now there was one less person around.

We did. More fool us.

A few changes were made and approved, but while someone from the other department was on holiday. She came back, went ballistic, and trapped my manager at her desk, screaming and yelling about the changes. Talk about invasion of personal space! Like Dubya spotting an oil opportunity. If this individual had treated me like that, I would have whacked her between the eyes with a stapler, which is why I'm not in a management post. My manager stayed calm, but requested a meeting to sort it all out.

A meeting was called.

This person (who is nothing to do with us) turned the whole thing into a verbal personal assault on our manager, who left the meeting in tears, whilst our Head of Department and Project Manager sat by and let it happen. They chose not to mention that they had seen the changes, approved them and had done so with the agreement of the other HoD...

Both HoDs have come up with a new plan, but when our manager asked if we could be included in any discussions, she was told that if she didn't agree to all changes without question then it would become a disciplinary matter. And so concluded over a week of bullying for my poor boss.

So, that's what you get for working as a team, being resourceful and trying to improve your workplace. For doing the job she was supposed to do, a bright and competent manager has been reduced to a snivelling wreck on a disciplinary charge. While we are feeling like the lowest of the pond life, and the person who instigated the whole thing is off scott free and smelling of roses.