My boyfriend has been having trouble at work lately. The person who is directly above him has been there for a long time, and as such she has a lot of connections. She doesn't like very many people and my boyfriend happens to be one that she dislikes. She's been making things VERY difficult for him. For example, she's been saying he's not doing certain things when he is, he just doesn't do them the way she wants. She pushes all of her work onto him and then some. It's just very petty, stupid stuff. But he DOES do the work, and he's actually very good at it. He's very efficient and will stay late if things need done. I guess she just doesn't like being one-upped by "the new guy."

So, I told him he needs to go to human resources or just go to somebody. It's not fair to let her push him around like that. He says he did speak to one person above her, but nothing came of it. He's afraid that if he pushes the matter and goes above her head, that she will find out and find a reason to fire him.

What should he do? Try to put up with it and hope her negativity and bad rumors don't affect his job? Or go above her head and hope she doesn't hear about it?



If he loses this job, we'll be so far in the hole we won't even be able to see a pinpoint of light.