Do I have a case, is this bullying?

beetlebailey

Just hoping someone could advise me if I have a case as I`ve reported my supervisor to my manager accusing him of bullying, now HR are involved and I have a meeting with them next week and I`m up wall with nerves ......it will take all night to explain the reasons so I`ll try to make it brief...........

I`m currently in my job a year and 5 months ago I got a promotion. For the first month my new supervisor was sound then I went to the UK for a month for training , when I returned the mood had completly changed, I was only back 2 weeks when he berated me to a collegue in middle of department and within earshot of other staff........he told my collegue he was very unhappy with me and quote ' If I can get him out I will ' I don`t want to give the details of the role I have its very pacific but lets jut say I was working on one job and my supervisor felt I should be working on another.
From then on he would be all chat one day ,next day I`d get the silent treatment while he chatted away to other staff members. I`d be pulled up on trivial issues.

I`ve tried to let it float above me and hoped that it pass in time unfortunatly during the week there was an incident that was the final straw........

I was gettiIng a hard time from him so much so that I said to 2 of my collegues that I felt he would try and fail one of my jobs.................
My job involves inspecting equipment for faults we do incoming and out going inspections.
So I inspected some incoming equipment found no fault. So later on that day he did an outgoing inspection on the same equipment and low and behold he had a concern about a particular specification on this equipment , he asked one of my collegues for a second opinion and my collegue felt that was within spec and ok to pass , this wasn`t good enough so he then asked my manager for his opinion ,my manager also felt it was within spec and ok to pass. He then called me over and told me it should have failed even though me collegue and manager ok`d it!

As a result of this I went to my manager (who is very pally with supervisor) and told him the stress I was under, how it was effecting my work and home life , how i wasn`t sleeping and dreaded coming into work.He showed no concern for me ,his only concern was that he was following procedure as bullying is a serious accusation.

Like i said theres a bit more to it but thats the main issue.
All I wanted to do was have a chat with my manager in the hope he could sort it , now I`m being formally invited to a meeting with HR and I`m sick to the stomach that i`ve no real evidence or its his word against mine. Like I said I am only with the company a year, he is there 7 or 8 years ,is a former employee of the year ! and is very pally with my manager

Am I going to be looking for a new job shortly????????

cloudatlas

It sounds like bullying to me. Berating you in front of staff. Sabotaging your work even though it's fine.

I think it's a good thing that h.r. have been brought in, at least your manager took your complaint seriously. You should try and write down an incident report with dates and details and have that ready for your meeting so that you can be very clear about your side of the story. Perhaps there will be a positive outcome and you won't have to report to this supervisor anymore.