Upcoming work performance evaluation from the beast

[Aries]

It's due. It's going to be bad. People at work call my boss IT. Nasty backstabbing control freak. Lots of people won't even talk to her, She's been threatening to get me fired for disobeying her unethical directives and when I complained they started an ethics investigation. I think I'm screwed.

 

[bin_tenn]

Yikes! :O This certainly sounds like it'd provoke anxiety for pretty much anyone. Your employer likely has a non-retaliation policy, right? If that's the case, I imagine your boss firing you right now may put them at risk of legal action. I'm no expert, but that's what it sounds like to me.

 

[Aries]

I know they can't fire me, but my boss can still keep trying to make me miserable. Going to work is like going into battle every day. A couple of people are telling me to hang on because HR might get rid of my boss. But I doubt it. It's very hard to get rid of anyone. She doesn't even know basic lab ethics. The other week she deleted data from an instrument. Then she wrote oops on the report. She can do anything and they just slap her on the wrist.

 

[Aries]

I never updated this. The beast lied on my evaluation and said I had taken unauthorized breaks. I had to write a rebuttal and point of that the breaks were authorized by her AND her boss. Then suddenly all the breaks I took for 6 months were unauthorized. Huh??? Then I complained about the fraud my boss ordred a coworker to commit. Now that was pretty bad. They finally did remover her and then she retired. The fraud never got dealth withn though. So I just sent an e-mail to HR saying some criminal activity had taken place at the workplace anmd implicated the program chief QA manager and division director. Merry Christmas maggots!

 

[MARCC]

Good for you!!!

 

[Aries]

I doubt anything will happen. It's gubermint work. All kind of dumb sh## happens in government and it all gets covered up.

 

[Vincent]

I'm sorry you had to go through that. I'm glad for your sake that she's retired. Sadly, though, the way of these things is they're typically overlooked, instead of bringing the problematic behavior to light and risking an investigation that could 1) hold her superiors accountable, and 2) uncover other things. We can't make that stuff go away, but we can report it to the best of our ability and rest on the fact that we have a clear conscience.

 

[Aries]

The ethics procedure says HR will hire an independent chemist to look at the questionable data. It has been over a month and that still hasn't been done. Probably because they know it was criminal lab fraud and they don't want anyone knowing about it. I went on law.com to ask if I am legally obligated to report the crime to the EPA. They didn't have any answer. One guy said I had whistleblower protection, but I already know that. It won't do me any good if the lab got closed. No one at any other lab will hire a whistleblower. But maybe the EPA won;t even care. Will the government prosecute a government lab? And make government look bad? Highly doubtful. 10 years ago two chemists went to a local media outlet to let the public know about some questionable activities in another part of the lab, because no one at the lab would do anything.