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    Default Harrassment at Work and Performance Review

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    My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Maryland

    I have worked at my company for almost 13 years and recently a few disturbing events have taken place:

    - I had a performance review which rated me a 3 out of 4 (4 being the highest) when the actual oral review took place with my manager. When I went to sign the completed review, the score had gone from 3 to 2 which basically means during the review I was "above requirements" and when it was time to sign I was at "meets requirements." This is the lowest score I've gotten in all my years of working here and I emailed my boss and told him my score changed and he just said yes, he noticed that too. So, without further comment from him, I called him the next day and asked about it and he just said it was "no big deal" and wouldn't impact my employment. Is this legal? I know it isn't ethical. I believe he changed my computerized performance review result. Also, as a side not: my actual oral review was very good. And he has not changed the result back.

    - A few months before my review, my entire group shifted our focus to a new product and I was the only one not included in this project. I asked about it a few times, but was given no answer as to why I have been ostracized from the group by my manager.

    -My manager has never indicated any problems with me whatsoever and I consider myself a very good employee with a very good work ethic.

    I'm wondering if I should go to HR or if I even have a case here?

    Thank you and I appreciate your help.

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    Default Re: Harrassment at Work/Performance Review

    What do you want to happen? HR can't make a manager change a performance review.

    And what makes this "harrassment"?

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    Default Re: Harrassment at Work/Performance Review

    I was hoping my review would be changed back to what I was originally told it was. I was told I was given a score of 3 out of 4 and when I went to sign it, it was 2 out of 4. What I wanted to know was why was it changed? I never received an answer as to why my score was lowered when it was time to sign it. Is it legal for a manager to lower a performance review score without warning or explanation?

    Harrassment was the second bullet of my post. Basically, I've experienced bullying in my workplace and the exclusion from the rest of the group is just one instance, but I didn't want my post to be too lengthy.

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    Default Re: Harrassment at Work/Performance Review

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    Is it legal for a manager to lower a performance review score without warning or explanation?
    It's legal because there is no law making it illegal.

    OK, on to the next issue. What actions/words are you considering "bullying" (which, by its generic definition, is not illegal)?

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    It's legal because there is no law making it illegal.

    OK, on to the next issue. What actions/words are you considering "bullying" (which, by its generic definition, is not illegal)?
    -I've been ostracized without explanation on a project my entire group is working on that impacts the direction of our group. I am qualified and have the time and have been doing this for many years. I am the only one in my group not involved.

    -I've been sending emails to my manager asking questions about work-related items (basically doing my job) and haven't gotten any response for over a week.

    -I've slowly been stripped of responsibility and job duties without explanation.

    - I have been blamed in front of the entire group for things that I didn't do and had no association with.

    -I was asked to take over a job with absolutely no training and information on it and when I asked questions of the person from whom I was taking over, this person got angry with me. When I asked my manager about this, he said, "find another way."

    This has been happening for years and is now impacting me physically. I'm currently looking for another job, but I was a once respected employee with high integrity who worked and still works, very hard. No explanation for any of this has ever been given to me. I imagine that I have been slandered greatly by one employee to the manager, but cannot prove it and the manager will not stop this. Perhaps I have no recourse, but wanted to check. The actions toward me are not deserved at all.

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    Default Re: Harrassment at Work and Performance Review

    Sorry, but NONE of what you referenced is illegal harrassment, unless the treatment is based SOLELY on a Title VII protected characteristic, such as your race, gender, (sometimes) age, religion, ethnic origin, etc.

    If you were to guess, why would you say this type of treatment is occuring?

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    Default Re: Harrassment at Work and Performance Review

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    Sorry, but NONE of what you referenced is illegal harrassment, unless the treatment is based SOLELY on a Title VII protected characteristic, such as your race, gender, (sometimes) age, religion, ethnic origin, etc.

    If you were to guess, why would you say this type of treatment is occuring?

    I have no proof, but I'm sure that it's another person in our group who is saying many things about me that aren't true. I know this from other people (who will not speak up). It seems this is a case of workplace bullying and I don't think I have any recourse except for the fact that all of this happened for a reason, but the reasons weren't made clear to me.

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