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Not the same situation, but I worked somewhere for 10 years and then overnight they changed both department managers with my direct report being someone who I absolutely clashed with and then the department manager was her best mate 🙄.
My managers first day I came in a few minutes late due to traffic (which was agreed with my old manager) and she pulled me up on it and said if I did it again I would get a warning. No asking me why I was late... That was her entire management style from day 1. She loved the full timers but genuinely think she hated people with kids.
I worked part time and she would schedule important meetings when I wasn't there on purpose and I would come in the next day to my work load being completely changed, no discussion. She would complain about me over the desk in front of everyone, tell me off for chatting at my desk while everyone was allowed to walk to the other side of the office for a chat. She was just a nasty person.
I feel like I was effectively bullied and because her best mate was the next manager up, I couldn't take it higher because she also decided everything I said was false. I decided in the end to just leave. It was the best thing I did tbh as my new job was so much better. Change is hard but it almost always is the right thing.
If you are feeling this way and getting no support, it's easier to leave I think then trying to fight everyone.2
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