AHHHH My new boss is horrid

[catew]

I have been really happy in my job, I started in January after my DH lost his job and so I went out to work and he stayed at home with DS but now things have changed as the company has got bigger they have brought an investor on board who is very much lording it and is now in charge of finance - the thing is he feels the need to completely undermine me every chance he gets if I make a small mistake he makes it look huge ringing the other directors to let them know! he has also on more than one occasion twisted what I have said which I have confronted him about. Anyway I am on holiday next week and at 4.45 I received an email stating he was my line manager, he is in charge of my pay and any problems I have with deadlines etc (he has set me deadlines which are impossible to achieve for instant he what's the year end accounts finished within a week of the year end) and he would like a meeting with me in his offices first thing on the Monday I return to talk about my role and make me a new job discription! Can they just change my job discription like that I just feel he wants me out and his own team (he has an accountancy firm he has used for 20 years) to take my place!

[mogwai]

oh my goodness

sounds like a case of plain and simple harrassment

Get in touch with your union and read your staff handbook if you have one.

[Pinky1]

Your firstly need to look at your job discription , if its open to change you or quite an open target, if its in realtion to consulation you need 2 consult the handbook x

[WideWebWitch]

Who does he report to? Who did you report to before this? Was his email really unpleasant or do you think maybe he just does things differently?

Anyway, it does seem you DO have a problem with the deadlines he has set so if I were you I'd approach it by quantifying the work needed to achieve those deadlines. Break it down into tasks, put it in a spreadsheet and go to him with a proposal. So if it would normally take you x time, what would it take to achieve it in y time? More resource I assume or having other work re prioritised.

Wrt the job description it depends on a lot of things and I'm no lawyer but I'd think the following need to be considered:

how long you've been there (iirc you have to be employed for a year to make a tribunal claim)
if you have a written job description
whether your company has a proper grievance procedure

I hope someone who knows more than me comes along in a while.