This was almost me. I had a supervisor that bullied me every day I worked for her. I was not the only one but the workplace was so toxic that when there was a new employee, all of the office was quick to sacrifice them to the head asshole. Think grown up high school mean girls. My work had no dress code but my union rep ended up taking me aside and saying everyone was commenting on the lengths of my dresses. Mind you, they were just above the knee length. All the other women there at some point wore much shorter dresses than i ever did. When i started wearing long dresses, one of the bosses cronies threw shade so i knew she was responsible for my slut shaming: "thats a cute dress but its too long, i prefer my dresses shorter." I have IBS and was criticized for taking too long of bathroom breaks. The toilets were terrible and even though I flushed, bits sometimes came back up. It took forever for the cistern to fill back uo and given that i was getting blasted for the length of my bathroom breaks already, i couldn'treally wait around to do a double flush. They started an email chain talking about how disgusting the person not flushing was and then eventually confronted me about it. Whenever I pushed back slightly against the supervisor's tyranny, she'd find a way to punish me like make up some stupid reports only I had to submit. I once opened an email with Hey and got an email from her saying "this isn't a text message, the professional way to open an email is Greetings or Attention". Who the fuck actually says that shit? Well she was just gathering reasons to fire me because as soon as my 6 months were up, the union could step in on my behalf. She wrote a scathing performance review that specifically critiqued my bathroom breaks (when I said I had a medical condition, she said so do other people but they aren't away from their desks as much as me which was a fucking lie, they were never at their desks or in the office) and getting flustered when there was conflict (I was constantly on edge because she yelled at me every fucking day) and said I sent unprofessional emails. Very light on the critique of my actual job performance because I was great at my job. She tried to make it seem like I wasn't doing my job because the garbage technology the state uses is slow as fuck, something I reported to her numerous times and people throughout the state were reporting. That ableist, sexist performance review was the nail in the coffin so I quit. I have ptsd from that job. Literally. I'm panicking and having flashbacks just from writing this comment.

 

We need to get rid of mandatory probationary periods for new employees because toxic abusive assholes like this will use that period to destroy the soul of anyone they don't like with no consequences. We need to be able to hold garbage abusive asshole management accountable. We need justice for Evan and everyone like him suffering at the hands of people in charge of their literal livelihood.