Hostile Work Environment

She sounds like a nasty piece of work and a typical school bully type! I ran across those where I used to work and they can make your life hell, you spend most of your day at work so when it becomes unpleasant it can cause so much stress, upset and cause problems to the health. Your friend can't let this go on for her own health and sanity. I would record all the events that have happened with dates and what went on then present them to this bullies supervisor, they don't like people sticking up for themselves, just a suggestion. I hope this supervisor gets her just desserts, these people make people's lives a misery. She is also very sad and lonely and relies on her cronies as an audience to prove the big I am!

I know this feeling very well. That is why I am staying home now. My husband works outside of the home for us and I earn online. I stood up for myself at one place I worked at and the situation got worse, so I left. I can't stand that kind of environment and no one should have to work under those conditions. I even went to our union and even they were on the opposite sie as me, i later found out. The union spread the word of my complaint, which made it blow way out of proportion. I would tell your friend to try to get a new job before she ends up drove nuts and losed her job or they fire her without warning.

maybe all she can do is pay attention focus to her work.. ignore that coworker and prove to them that she deserves where she is now..

Stressful work environments can happen for many reason some of them the own nature of the work. It is certainly difficult to give any advice without really knowing what is happening. Is your friend a subordinate of that person? Are these cronies equal to your friend in the hierarchy? What is that person making up? Isn't it the case to talk to that person and straighten things up? The only thing for sure in a company is that the higher you go the more intense the battle gets.

Well, this kind of environment is very common in companies that have very poor vision or no vision at all with what they would like to happen to the company sometime in the future. Some of these key people are still having the "turf mentality." What your friend can do is to look for someone in the company, might be a peer or a superior, who has the same sentiment as that of your friend. She should try to study also the organizational culture. Once your friend has found that someone, what they can do is look for others who might have the same sentiment. From there, they would be able to plan some proactive measures. But then again, try to find out also if this company has the making of becoming a great organization. If it has no potential for being such, then your friend should start looking for another job with another company.- Ed Garcia