I’m so sorry that the LW for #1 needed to take care of this type of bullying. Individuals who write issues like which are horrible and have to be handled.
Again after we all went distant throughout the early, unhealthy days of COVID, I used to be a VP. Everybody was nonetheless studying how Groups labored, and a bunch of three somewhat scummy and misogynist “bros” by chance put some actually nasty feedback about considered one of my reviews (a really good, however insecure younger lady, about her appears to be like, weight, calling her a pig, and so on.) in a public chat channel (they meant it for a personal one) and a dozen folks on a name, together with my report, noticed this. She was in tears.
We reported it to HR, however they did nothing besides ask the “bros” to apologize and never do it once more.
So, since VPs truly had some energy there, I made their lives hell with the express intention of creating them give up, or getting them fired. For instance, considered one of them was doing a finance presentation to a bunch of a number of pretty senior of us (a number of administrators and managers), and I completely destroyed him. Known as him out for a typo (“A toddler is aware of how that phrase is spelled”), for poor presentation expertise (“You actually need to return to those displays higher ready. That is horrible work. You have to be embarrassed.”, “That is rubbish. What do you do all day?”), and so on.
One complained to his (feminine) boss who, after I reminded her of what he had stated to my report, mainly informed him to “develop up and cease whining”. HR was as ineffective to him as they have been to my report who he savagely bullied. One of many others, I faraway from a number of essential tasks, and put him on a rubbish mission and put a bunch of unrealistic and unobtainable aims as a part of the mission, then completely destroyed him in entrance of his boss when he didn’t meet them.
I used to be profitable in getting two of them to give up, one after I managed to get him on a PIP. One despatched a hilariously offended e-mail to me and our CFO on his approach out the door about how poorly he was handled.
If you happen to can’t get a bully fired, make their life hell.