My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Tennessee
My manager is causing me grief. I have been in the employ of this company for about five months.
Let me jump in the middle of this thing. My manager has mood swings I guess, he comes in to our department and finds reasons to lecture his subordinates when he is having a bad day; which is about three or four days a week.
He has decided to pay special attention to me. There have been two incidents where a product was returned because i didn't catch a defect. I took full responsibility for my actions on both ocassions and offered that I needed to pay better attention and would as a solution. One of these incidents recieved three lectures from him, the last lecture he took me outside and lectured me, includintg making a remark that was out of bounds. I thought I was being fired.
He lectures me for having 'extended' conversations at work. These conversations are no more than any other employee, including him, does in the course of a day.
Last friday he tried to 'trap' me on a work routine and actually got upset when I had documentation of work performed. This didn't satisfy him so he found an area where I had followed a routine practiced by my coworker who has been there for over 28 years and scolded me on doing it that way. He actually got angry at me over this.
All of this leads up to yesterday. I had monday off, so I showed up yesterday and after my first break he called me into another managers office and wrote me up for all of the things I have mentioned as well as a few issues which dont add up to a grain of salt.
He said he spent the weekend thinking about me.
I may not be the model employee, but I'm not someone who is totally inept or disrespectful. I've been in the workforce long enough to know how to be a good employee.
I'm not sure how many times a boss can discipline an employee for the same offense or include it in further disciplinary actions. At this rate I have no idea where the issues are considered having been dealt with.
How can I protect myself from him?

