48% of UPSE members surveyed said they had seen or experienced abuse of authority at work.
“I was bullied and harassed for nearly a year by a supervisor. Micromanaging, different rules, assumptions, email, comments, and pulled into rooms for private conversation that end in being overwhelmed and crying. Spoke and asked several times for her to stop and would not.”
“I had one supervisor tell me that she was a supervisor, and before I said no to her, I better figure out what my duties are.”
“Changing expectations, shifting duties, not allowing successful completion of major projects, isolation, generating gossip and untruths about lower-level staff, scapegoating, shaming, demeaning, lack of human empathy.”
See full survey (here)