I've been at this company for about 2 years now. I get along with everyone and do a good job. Our director recently quit. In comes new interim director. He's an extremely passive aggressive construction project engineer. I work safety. I call him out on a few unsafe things, very professionally, and he takes it extremely personally. Guy is a libtard that does not wear the pants in his family. His wife probably benches more than him and has resting bitch face. Now he's spreading rumors through the company about me, making it very personal - calling me a narcissist to others, etc.. He has ruined my relationship with my professional mentor, a VP at the company.

We got the new director today. Interim bitch proceeds to tell him all these made up things about me and personally attacks me on the guys first day. This was behind closed doors.  

He smiles at me in the hallway, shakes my hand and pretends everything is okay but behind the door he's a pussy bitch backstabbing passive aggressive piece of shit.

Need some clever payback ideas. I don't want to go to jail or be fired so I may need to resort to guerrilla under-the-radar tactics like this fuck stick.

confront him in the hallway and tell him hes a fucking pussy.  then tell him that you guys can take it to the garage if he wants to keep talking shit.  That always works in corporate environments.

Find an Italian guy to take a baseball bat to his knees in the parking lot after work one day.

Done.

Yeah, no.

While it's just you and him bait him into confessing what he is doing, make him show his true form, hide a digital recorder in your pocket.  Go to VP or senior management and show them the POS that he is.

ETA - Sometimes to root out a weasel you have to think like a weasel.  As a man I'd want to beat the crap out of him but that's frowned upon in the corporate world.  You need to catch him in how own words showing his true colors.  He can't weasel out of that.  

Piss on him to establish dominance.

My guess is passive aggressive Dick is probably scared to death of conflict also.  Call him out on his shit talking in front of coworkers and watch him squirm.  Be forceful in pressing him about what he has said but keep it professional.

Thought about this, but senior management would lose trust in me, knowing I recorded him. Don't think they would trust me again.

Fast acting laxative in his morning coffee and superglue on the toilet seat.

 
Try just pulling him aside and telling him that you have heard he is talking shit about you behind your back. Tell him he can either talk shit to your face or cut it the fuck out. Even better, do it in front of a group of people.


That will end it and humiliate him.  

Yes, as a safety guy, I have done this, in a professional way.

He freezes up. Just blank stare. Doesn't say much. Then he tries to justify his actions even though all code and procedure says he's 100% wrong.

He doesn't drink beer, whiskey, or scotch. He drinks wine.
He brings his wife bed in breakfast every day and cooks her dinner everyday even though he does put in a lot of hours at work. She keeps his balls.

In all seriousness it sounds like you need to have a closed door session of your own with the new head honcho.  Be sure to mention you're on the verge of filing a harassment/hostile work environment claim with your HR department.  You need to tackle this head on and you need to do it SOON.  Leave the guerilla tactics to the movies, in real life they always backfire.

Talk to him about it

worked construction for about a decade, most problems were settled either by a field check or settling the problems with fists.

Just do a good job, OP.

If you're not in a position to finish somebody off, wait until you are.


No sense in escalating a fight you don't control all the variables for.



Don't get me wrong, OP, I'm all about tossing enemies off the ramparts.  You gotta be there first.

DOCUMENT DOCUMENT DOCUMENT...get your colleagues to make statements about his behavior.

Find out his work email address and from a third party computer register him at gay porn sites, use his cell and email to place ads for brony gay sex on craigslist and other sites. Pay a gay male stripper to come to work and make a scene as in lovers spat with him...

Say something completely insane and out of character to him and wait for him to repeat it,ruin his credibility.Nothing violent  mind you just nuts.

Have consensual sex with every adult female he's related to.

I did this today a few minutes after they talked. I think I covered myself with the new boss. I laid out EVERYTHING about this pos to the new boss, so I may have the new boss back on my side.

When I was listening to what this fuck was saying about me it made me depressed as fuck. It was a shitty feeling. Even though I think I covered myself with the boss, I am still down a few notches and now have to work extra hard to prove the douche bag was wrong about me. The boss we had before the interim liked me so much he offered me a job at his new place of employment. I only declined because it was out of state.

Even if I have fixed it with my boss, I want payback. I tried really hard controlling my anger. Almost broke my left hand punching a bathroom stall a few times today.

Thanks. I appreciate this advice.

Bitch boy boss was doing that to friend of mine.
Followed him into the mens  room just us in there, told him it would be in his best interest to knock it off. He thought I was crazy any way, I just reinforced it.
He stopped.

Next time one of his jobs has a work violation document, give it a doy or so for him to correct if he has not...call OSHA and report him.

This is fucking epic.

This is the correct answer

Start pumping resumes.

Someone has to leave--you or him.

This one.
Call him on his shit.

The angry person is the loser.  Even if you are furious keep the emotions to yourself and try to look as unaffected as you can.  If you are too worked up I would suggest leaving for a little while until you can calm down and then re-engage.  In situations like this it can be hard but you will be glad you did.

Full contact basketball game. One-on-one. Make him your bitch.

How do you know this?

You and him go sit down with the new director and lay it all out on the table.  
Be specific. Be polite, be professional.

Let's just say they were talking in the office next to mine and the walls are good but not that good.

If he, and interim, has the power to sabotage a relationship you had with the VP, then you didn't have much of a relationship there to begin with.

I'd start there and try to establish what exactly this person is doing to you behind those closed doors and hopefully you have the work record to back it up.

So, Op is the safety guy at work? The other guy is probably in the right here. Op, you need to work harder at getting along with others.



Just kidding



Sort of.

Revenge is for suckers.   You probably won't get any as people like that tend to float to the top.   The best thing you can hope for is to protect yourself from this person until they move on or until you can move on.  


I had a front line manager way back who become a friend of mine (or so I thought).  This person was not qualified for the job (shock) but was not a mouth breathing moron as many others are.  

Like the idiot I am, I taught this person their job.     That person then tried to destroy me first by trying to make things so uncomfortable as to force me out ( I came close to resigning), by destroying my promotion potential (slandering and libeling me to my superiors), and then by trying to get me fired (false accusations).

Here is what I did and then what I recommend:

-First and foremost:  do not violate any corporate policies.   The first two places management will go when they want to fire you will be your internet browsing history (if you surf Arfcom or anything else at work, stop now) and then your travel vouchers followed by time and attendance. If you run late and "make up for this" by staying late; stop.   While they may not care that you stay late they will crucify you for showing up late.

-I did my job as well as I could striving for perfection.  You will make mistakes but don't make any serious mistakes as these will be used to reinforce the narrative the person is spreading about you to destroy you.

-Don't bad mouth this person to your superiors, co-workers, or this person's superiors.   I made this mistake once and learned the hard way that doing this just gives fodder to the person who wants you go.   When I became a manager I learned management is a club and members generally either want to protect their fellow members (relaying what you say about the person to the person) and/or do not want to hear "griping" from underlings.    There are exceptions to this rule however you won't know who is who so just don't do it.

-Open CYA (Cover Your Ass) files and keep copious, accurate records both of your own activities and work history as well as the person who wants you gone.   Keep and archive your emails (and be wary of anything you send in email form or in any non verbal form).  These people tend to be sloppy, lazy, and prone to mistakes.   Find them and document them.   DO NOT RECORD THEM SECRETLY as you could run afoul of legal issues (violating state law) or corporate / company policies and give them the excuse they are looking for to get rid of you.   Even if they don't fire you, and even if they agree with you, they will never trust you and you have killed your career for nothing.

These records can be useful to disprove the false accusations made against you.   Showing a person to be a liar with hard evidence tends to have a dramatic effect.

-Be patient and bide your time.   If you cannot stomach what this person is doing and wait patiently, get your resume together and start looking for another job while you still have your current one and while you can still leave with out a cloud over your head.

I did all of these things and when confronted with the accusations made against me (and my performance evaluations), I was able to demonstrate with documentation the lies.   I was blessed with the fact that my manager's manager actually cared about performance (which is rare) and when confronted with the fact that my documented history did not match the lies told about me, left me alone (and ultimately led to me being promoted).

Then I waited until I was in a position to create the circumstances that allowed that person mentioned earlier to show his/her *** in public before the people who were interviewing him/her for a promotion (which would have given this person authority to outright fire me instead of having to lower my performance and shove me out).   They denied this person the promotion and then I was promoted to a level comparable with his/hers.  

Good luck to you.

TL; DR:  get your resume ready while you hope for the best.  

So you are saying that your supervisor is RETALIATING against you after you voiced your opposition to safety issues?  
These wouldn't happen to be OSHA based safety issues?  
If only there was an OSHA office for something like that.

It was just the interim who did the damage. I don't work on a construction site. I work at a professional company for profit company. They are successful, so they are always expanding, building new buildings, upgrading old spaces, etc..

It's true. I probably was being played by the VP. I can now see that he sells the snake oil.

Thank you for that link.

Negative, do not engage.

Just do your job and do it well.  Let the bullshit was over you.

If you react, you become part of the problem.

I've seen the same thing happen in my staff.  If you react you demonstrate your vulnerabilities.  If you don't then you demonstrate your maturity and professionalism.  They, on the other hand, generally end up with their cards marked as being disruptive to team working and become self limiting.

Others will see him for what he is soon enough. In fact the less you react, the more he will expose himself if he continues.

These people are often self-defeating, and will be made to move on soon enough.

OP I'd get your resume in order. Guy probably has a friend he wants to fill your position.

Also, claiming this is actionable harassment/hostile work environment will get you laughed out of HR's office.  At least, based upon the minimal facts presented.

Fuck his wife and any of-age daughters he has

He's playing the game. . . you are not.

Corporate politics sucks, not my thing and I hate it . . . . I really couldn't say that with more conviction. I've been on the loosing end (not getting promos or loosing a project) because I just can't deal.

Good luck OP

Has anyone suggested having sex with his mom yet ?

I have seen this before. It almost invariably ends with the person in the OPs position going somewhere else, either because they recognized places like that aren't a good place to work, or because they got let go.

YMMV, or not. If I was OP I would polish that resume.

If I heard someone talking crap about me esp, made up crap through my Office wall.  That'd be when it got settled.  Good luck op you may be to beta..

Visine, a whole bottle daily, tasteless and odorless into coffee cup.

Hmmmm.... Do you think he is making pipe bombs at home?  J/k.

Haha, wait till you work in a right to work state and find out just how useless whistleblower protection is thanks to recent court decisions.

Tend to agree, everyone hates the safety guy. Is your name kent?

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If it is damaging your ability to do your job well, you need to have a frank discussion with your boss, and in the most clinical and calm manner, tell him that this individual in undermining you and doing harm to the workplace.

If such a conversation can't be had, just do your job well and don't worry about it.

But if you wish to destroy him, remember to serve it up cold.