Supervisor kept picking on woman and pointing out non-existent errors — then watched it all blow up in her face
As this went on for months, the author advised his wife to document the email exchange as evidence.
Some bosses can show blatant favoritism, but accusing someone of errors they did not commit is on another level. When a woman was constantly attacked for errors she never made, she had to take matters into her own hands and call out her boss. Sharing the story, her husband recalls how she managed to make her supervisor confess to her wrongdoings and end up having them investigated. u/camels_are_cool's Reddit post on December 1 has garnered over 7,000 likes so far.
u/camels_are_cool's wife works at a union hospital and has a supervisor who often picks on her. The author wrote, "[The supervisor will] send my wife emails about errors that either didn't happen or were someone else's fault, complaints from patients with no paper trail, or [not] even telling her what the complaint was specifically so she can correct it." As this went on for months, the author advised his wife to document evidence of the mail. "She did, and has a pile of emails printed of the supervisor telling her she made an error, my wife responding by saying 'no, that was co-worker A' or 'The system did that', or 'this was corrected as soon as the error occurred', and then silence from the supervisor," the author wrote.
Supervisor had my wife nailed, panicked when the Union showed up, tells on herself.
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On the other hand, the couple had recently gotten married, and hence, his wife had missed a few scheduled shifts on short notice. Although she was expecting a suspension, she received a complaint from management and was asked to attend a meeting. The author and her co-workers advised her not to walk into the meeting without a union representative. As advised, his wife was accompanied by a union rep, and as soon as the supervisor noticed it, she got uncomfortable. When the representative inquired about the complaints, the supervisor went berserk and began accusing the author's wife of making errors. His wife eventually explained that most of the mistakes she'd been blamed for either weren't hers or had been fixed before they caused any issues, and that she had emailed the supervisor about each instance without ever receiving a reply. The representative also added that the system itself was responsible for some of the errors.
Later, when the meeting was adjourned, the representative informed his wife that the supervisor was being investigated for favoritism and reprisal. "So she had my wife exactly where she wanted her with the attendance issue, panicked when she saw the union rep, made the meeting about her performance instead, and outed herself for doing the thing she's being investigated for!" the author wrote. A 2022 study by George B. Cunningham and Harper R. Cunningham found that managers showed moderate levels of both explicit and implicit bias. However, by showing favoritism, the supervisor had received a taste of her own medicine.
Soon after the post went viral, many users shared their thoughts. u/SuperDan523 wrote, "Unions, attorneys, and condoms: the more the other party doesnt want you to have one the more you definitely need one." u/jonnywarpspeed commented, "Gotta love it when management is scared of your steward/Rep. Sounds like your wife has a good one." u/fuzzballz5 wrote, "I think unions can and should make a comeback."
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