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You want fucked-up? A friend worked for a Very Large Bank in America and was in a conference room waiting for some other attendees to arrive, and someone asked him what he had done that weekend.
"I was in a pistol competition." he replied.
Later that afternoon, corporate security escorted him to HR, and then off the property with a "no tresspassing" letter. Out of work.
Turns out that one of the people in the room had applied for the open position that he had ended up getting. So they took the opportunity to tell HR "I felt threatened", and everything naturally followed from there. And they were promoted into his place.
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A book that's somewhat related to this is Corporate Confidential. It's a goldmine of information about employment from the Human Resources perspective. In relation to this specific event, when an employee brings a lot of controversy or the possibility of legal action against the company they'll usually get fired. Doesn't necessarily mean it's morally right, but that is what will generally happen regardless of other factors.
you're not alone.
books that have helped me: http://www.amazon.com/Somebody-Around-Insider-Secrets-Hired/dp/0312373341
Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know---and What to Do About Them by Cynthia Shapiro
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No one will ever tell you they have an issue with you. No one likes confrontation and they figure if you don't know the imaginary, unofficial rules of Corporate America, then you don't belong there anyway.
HR is not there for you. HR is there to keep the company from getting sued. Makes friends with someone and ask them to give you honest feedback about how you behave/come across and any insider tips on the culture at the office. It's the only way to survive.
I've never been at a job more than a couple years. Edit: mostly because I don't do politics and butt kissing and get so bored I stop doing my job.
This reminds me of... Corporate Confidential, a book by Cynthia Shapiro. In it, she talks about situations just like this and other eye opening shenanigans companies pull.
> I figure, since I was here first, he needs to go.
Unfortunately, even though that's all good and well your head, reality doesn't reflect this. In 99% of the cases of worker bees trying to overpower a member of management, the worker bee WILL lose. Right or wrong, management will stand together unless something is overtly grievous - and that means blatantly illegal with evidence.
You're better off spending time and energy finding a new job.
Trust me. I didn't take similar warning signs and didn't even rock the boat. Got a new boss a little over a year ago. Despite "meeting expectations" in 2017, 2018 has brought me a "performance review." He wrote me up on stupid, daily, human little things that aren't a problem. Never have had a problem ever and I'm mid career. Dbag decided I needed to be gotten rid of, and all of a sudden not being trained on something new is a problem. Being "two weeks late" when someone with more authority than either of us pushed the meeting back that two weeks was somehow my problem. You get the drift: stupid, nitpicky, irrelevant junk that doesn't matter WILL get written up and you WILL be given notice.
Neither your time nor energy is worth spending on a loser. Bail while you still have your own terms to exit on. The company will figure it out when the team becomes a turnover problem and he's left holding the bag.
If you're going into battle, do not go unarmed.
I suggest you give this a read