Managers and Supervisors. Favorites are played above any qualifications one may bring to the table. They say that you can go to HR with your concerns, but this is not possible if you want to avoid your supervisor retaliating against you. Although your name may not be disclosed by HR, the structure of the company makes is extremely easy for the supervisor to figure out who filed the complaint. Yes, departments may be large but each department is broken up into smaller teams of about 6-10 people each reporting to one specific supervisor. With that being said, it makes it pretty easy to figure out who has filed the complaint and I have seen such retaliation in action on multiple occasions. The supervisors will then freeze you out, overwhelm you with work (even more than usual), become less available to provide approvals that must go through them, they will find any reason possible to fail your QARs (audits), and it feels as if they fudge our weekly and monthly reported stats. Rather than taking the average of stats across the week or month, they just use numbers each Monday for the week and then randomly select a day to pull numbers from for the monthly reporting. This is in no way an accurate representation of your work as a whole. They also focus WAY too much on hard numbers and don’t take into account all the excess work we do that they system doesn’t account for. Oh, you were stuck taking a statement for over an hour so you didn’t complete as many daily activities? That counts against you because they don’t account for the time you had to spend in one claim alone. They use these numbers and statistics for their baseline of evaluating your worth as an employee. If you don’t perform well enough at your job, you’re in the hot seat. But if you preform too well, the supervisors become threatened by you and find any way to keep you down and punish you for fear of their own status.
