It’s Not Business, It’s Personal: Signs Your Boss Has a Personal Beef With You

Source: Madame Noire

Sometimes a boss can be your worst night mare. This could be more about their personality or they are just being indifferent towards you.

Here are four major signs/scenarios so that you’ll know if it’s all in your head or if your boss wants you gone.

Smiles At Everyone But You

You arrive to work in a cheerful mood, ready to take on the day. Your manager is moving through the office with a positive demeanor, smiling at every one, but when you approach them, giving a vibrant, “Good Morning,” all the energy drains from their face and the only response is, “Hello” as he/she surveys you with their eyes.

Trust, it’s not that you need that person’s approval, but when it’s clear that you’ve become the less than favorable employee and you don’t know why, nor are you told why, it’s clear that somebody doesn’t care for you.

You Catch Hell For EVERYTHING

As it’s a business-casual environment, many women are wearing a skirt or dress–including your manager, yet they’ve singled out your attire as being “inappropriate.”

He/she insists that they’ve spoken to you several times about your clothing (even though they have NOT), and they make a point of reminding everyone what they shouldn’t wear, just moments after publicly ostracizing you.

You Can Do No Right

Following a performance review, you’ve discovered that your manager is dissatisfied with your work. He/she does not share this privately, but instead they share their feelings with you in front of your colleagues.

You begin to work harder, struggling to put in extra time and effort, but when it comes to another evaluation, your manager only slightly acknowledges your “minor” improvements in front of your coworkers, but privately praises you later.

Or even worse, your boss can only seem to point out what he or she doesn’t like about your work. Unappreciated much?

You’re The Example

There is a staff meeting, and all of the employees on your team are called into the room. The meeting, which is supposed to discuss progress and policies, almost immediately gets directed towards you. Your manager spends more than half of the meeting time discussing you and your faults or talking strictly to you in front of everyone.

At the same time, he/she only briefly touches on the fact that some of your fellow co-workers have committed much heavier grievances. Things that could have been discussed in private are discussed around your colleagues in an attempt to “set you straight.”

Do you relate to any of these scenarios, and are you suddenly overwhelmed by feelings of resentment or angst? Well, try not to be. Know that the best defense against a manager who doesn’t like you is to kill them with kindness.

Recognize that if you were to give your manager anymore cause for complaint outside of whatever arbitrary feelings he/she has for you, then they may really strive to get you fired.

And if that doesn’t work, if you fail to charm your manager despite all of your efforts, then strive to charm everyone else, including your manager’s superior, by doing great work and just being a bigger and better person.

Also, if you find that your manager is also mistreating another co-worker of yours, decide that person is an ally and take notes, or at the very least, you’ll have someone to complain with.

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