I'm just wondering if anyone here has experienced workplace bullying or harassment as I have and several of my colleagues have? Please tell us your experiences and share your thoughts.
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Can you give an example of what you mean by bullying? Only one person gave his/her experience of falling down from a staircase and loosing a shoe due to some verbal attack/feedback from the manager. Another mentioned about a co-worker taking over credit, which in my opinion doesn’t fall under the term bullying. Or are you all calling anything and everything as bullying?
I believe once GE sells the remaining shares that the culture will get bad enough to effect daily operations to greater noticeability. There just isn't enough retention in this company. Even before the pandemic.
I don't mind the bullies. I cannot stand the liars who will do what ever it takes to fabricate a narritive that hurts people. My boss is an omsbud and i've heard stories about him and his credibility is c-ap. I did some networking and there isn't an employee that worked for my supervisor that is still in this company. Every good leader brings soldiers of the past with them. People that they've worked side by side with. That bond is stronger than any credential or environment.
This is a huge red flag.
My boss reprimanded me and said some very vicious things about me and I’m very hurt by that.
I then fell down some flights of stairs and my shoes came off!
Toxic working environment, the bosses not really know what his guys are doing, blindly follow the false excuses to his guys. The employees quite lay back and no motivation to work, selfish and unwilling share their knowledge.
My ex-colleague stole my credit and acted innocent front of management.
I reported my supervisor during one of the August compliance reporting deadlines. All that HR did was send my supervisor to conflict resolution training and swept everything he did before that under the rug like it was all taken care of. All they care about is preventing a lawsuit, not actually creating a decent work environment for people who do the work.
Dear Baker Hughes HR, please fire or lay off the toxic managers.
No different in Aberdeen BoD QA, few years back a QA guy took the fall for faking docs, he got the boot while his boss the real culprit got away with it.
Emmott road quality department is definitely all about favoritism. If you’re not in with Guy, you’re toast. Either way you’ll get gossiped about at La Fogata during “team meetings.”
Ah s—t. Forget Ombudsman as it seems Baker got rid of it altogether. 🤔, even nasty threads about it dating back to 2015 prior to the merger.
Wow. Well, May the odds be in everyone’s favor. I’m not missing that place one bit. Nasty nasty nasty
@1scx - sorry to hear and hope ultimately for a resolution of some sort. Document and if nothing else, lawyer up and go after them.
If the environment is that bad, I’d be happy I am out. Of course, 2 sides to every story.
Just saying - exhaust out the internal options which you did. Then take the next steps
Sad to say, the ugly environment comes hand in hand with mergers, downturns, etc. really common in our industry
So, from a racial/identity standpoint, I have not in the HTC area. I also know that we as colleagues would put an end to that sh– really quick. We work with people from many different backgrounds and don’t have any tolerance for that smallminded c-ap. But I have as a parent in the past, and in my case, I just waited it out for the person to move on. I knew if I confronted it, I couldn’t avoid getting physical and I needed to keep the job.
It was the most toxic work environment I ever experienced. Favoritism, arrogance, coupled with shoddy work and undermining managers.
@1phm NAM (Gulf Region)
I and others who experienced bullying and retaliation from managers as well as people with the word “lead” in their job title used every option available internally, including contacting the CEO directly. Before that, I and others spoke to the regional HR manager, NAM services director, and probably everyone else you can think of. The response at all levels was to pander, perform an internal “investigation”, state that the results were inconclusive, and to try to pretend nothing ever happened.
And yes, all of the managers and “leads” doing the bullying and retaliating that I knew of came from GE, as did the people in HR and senior management. It isn’t just happening in the Gulf Region either.
That was baker culture for years no avenues to turn down as they do nothing to help employee and cover it up for the managers theye need there arses chucked out instead of employee that's losing there jobs get rid of them and save the worker no need for so much managers with there daggers ready
@1uc - you document. Get some witnesses and absolutely YES there are avenues to bring up concern.
Not sure what country or part of a country your are from, but I’ve seen managers ousted for it.
Yeah, get an attorney if needed, but many here reading this may think that is off limits, too extreme, or not worth the money and time.
Do as managers do - document what the hell is going on, but seek help from the resources you have. It may be your word against theirs, but any attorney will ask if you exhausted options available. If still no support or change...well much more leverage you have to take them on full force NOW with an attorney.
In reply to @vhc+17104TTU. I followed the avenues to report bullying. HR is worthless. Afrraid of managers and superstars. Where is this Ombudsman? That is a new one to me. Does not exist.
You must be a typical HR trying to coverup what we all know exists.
I tried to report bullying more than once at Baker Hughes. Yes, more than once. And yes, they're more concerned about protecting themselves than they are about protecting you. That's what they're paid to do. Go figure.
Yes, of course. My former manager was the worst ever manager that I ever worked for, and he was ex-GE.) He kept focusing on who he was going to fire next based on his ex-GE stack ranking management program. It was not a healthy working environment to say the least. Until Baker Hughes gets rid of the ex-GE managers, they will continue to suffer from a toxic work environment.
@OP I experienced more than one incident of discrimination and retaliation while working at BH, and I’m not the only one.
I had colleagues who were aggressively harassed by their managers, and went through the formal complaint process with HR, only to be told that the investigation was “inconclusive” and have it swept under the rug. This seemed to start happening more after BH was spun-off in 2019, and it’s only gotten worse since then.
My advice to anyone who experiences harassment, discrimination, or retaliation at BH is to retain an attorney and take BH to court. The only thing HR and management will do is cover themselves and the people tormenting you.
@vhc You are totally and utterly FOS.
There are avenues to formally complain about bullying. BKR is strict about bullying.
Ombudsman is there to help you. So stop being so g– and think complaining here will fix anything.
Disgraceful company. This should not be happening. What’s management doing about it except nothing.
Tell her to stop pinching your bottom
S— it up it builds character. There will always be bullies so we have to learn how to not let it effect us so much.
Bullying is rampant in the workplace at BHI. HR turns a blind eye. Usually the bullies are the super stars and are given a pass. Very hostile work environment