Hi anita,

1.It is a big HR team but one executive authorizing the decisions. I am still not sure this is what happened, this is what I have been told, so I sent her a rehire request letter following HR advisors on the internet. I have met her personally before on the unhappy occasion with my former manager. She assigned dedicated HR responsible to monitor the situation and protect me while I was part of that team.
2. I did not raise a complaint against my manager. When I felt bullied by colleagues I went to HR office using so called “open door policy” allowing me to discuss issues with HR representative and not my manager. This happened because my manager was not present in the office, and I had seen him just once for months since I joined the team. He was working remotely but I was never introduced to him, only to his deputy, who was also absent at the time, so I felt uneasy reaching him by chat or phone about a delicate situation. When all this came out in front of HR representative, my manager was assigned a corrective action plan, something like a probation monitoring period requesting him to strictly follow his responsibilities as people manager, and with bad consequences if not. Funny situation how this came out, HRs asked me why I didn’t contact my manager, and he said – Yeah, I’m always available on the chat for you, why didn’t you tell me anything – and HR team was shocked to understand that my boss is only present on the chat and not in the office… So, it started with my colleagues bullying me and ended with my manager retaliating on me. I felt so ashamed for months. When in time my colleagues saw that my manager was still on the role, the tension grew and at one point it turned out that there were 5 or 6 more escalations raised within our team of 14 people. I didn’t want to know any more details, at the time I was just looking for a way out of the team.
3. So I went to my last role where I barely had a manager from the company take me for his team, and I was shorter than the grass, with so much pressure on me to prove that I am a good employee and not a trouble. This to explain why in a previous post I wrote the following: “There were events that led to other events and so on leading me to such a situation that I had no firm ground under my feet to stand on and assert myself”