Twice a week we publish problems that will feature in a forthcoming Dear Jeremy advice column in the Saturday Guardian so that readers can offer their own advice and suggestions. We then print the best of your comments alongside Jeremy’s own insights.
My boss doesn’t like me. I’m not sure why and I have given up trying to figure it out, but it is making my working life really miserable. She undermines me in front of the rest of the team, interrupts constantly with irrelevant asides when I’m trying to lead meetings, leaves me out of meetings I should be included in, and makes constant threats that I might lose my job or someone else more junior might lose theirs if I don’t do some, often irrelevant, task.
I am desperate to leave but feel so undermined by her bullying, favouritism and passive-aggressive behaviour that I feel worthless and useless and unemployable.
She likes to remind me that I am lucky to have a job. I have worked there for 15 years but now feel trapped in a vicious circle. What should I do?
Do you need advice on a work issue? For Jeremy’s and readers’ help, send a brief email to dear.jeremy@theguardian.com. Please note that he is unable to answer questions of a legal nature or to reply personally.
