How to Handle a Boss Who Yells

I got my dream job in my dream company 2 years ago. My boss was much younger and did not have managerial experience (his previous was a training job). He was hired 7 months before me on a premise that he had an accomplishment that in actuality never realized. I believe he hired me with my experience and real accomplishments so I helped to create his accomplishments. He also had vastly different cultural backgrounds that assumed a subordinate female to be automatically inferior.

He was bullish from the beginning and a few months into my work started to yell at me at 1:1 meetings. I asked why he yelled and he said that if I imagined things it was my problem. I worked extremely hard and was getting very good data that I was proud of. My 1st review was a shock. He brought into it a slew of little things with my actual and perceived faults. I only partially met his expectations. I learned that I could appeal the review but decided not to because the protocol for appeal involved the whole chain of command up to the VP. I hoped that it was possible with best intentions from both sides to overcome problems. Things however only got worse; my boss started to have meetings called "performance issues". Example: I never worked in corporation and did not guess to cc my boss one email - that was a reason for one such meeting. My boss was hitting his chest and yelled: if you need to ask someone - ask me! I requested help of HR. HR apparently spoke with him because yelling stopped. Our 1:1 meetings became !:2 (a boss of my boss was present), and not in his office. By then he had his bosses brainwashed about me and on his side joining in his mobbing effort. The picking up on small and perceived things worsened. By then I missed the appeal deadline; I worked extremely hard days and nights and weekends and was getting very good data. I foolishly believed that my good work will get me a decent review. Once in the midst of my work my boss called a performance issues meeting where he accused me of yelling at him and thus his expectations were to be reset; he was referring to what has happened over a month ago when I had my iPod louder than usual (I was bitten up a week before with the police report etc. and I was shaken then). I explained the situation and thought it was over but this accusation made its way on my second review along with a slew of small things real and not my boss apparently was keeping track of. Despite meeting every single one of my goals tiers 1,2,3 - I only partially met his expectations. Getting such review for the hard work I' done made me very sick for 2 weeks. When I came back I had extreme troubles communicating with my boss. I spoke with director but that was no help. I developed severe depression. Employee relations investigation did not find any policy violations and concluded my boss did everything right. 2 bad reviews let him put him on PIP then fire me from one of 10 best places to work for in US for "my performance"

Jane Doe of CA 2:40AM September 07, 2009

A Boss who Yells is not reallya person of subtains. Not a good person a person He himself is doubtful of himself. Naracistic self center dumb not educated at all at his tasks to run a business sucessfully. Joe B

Joe Birbiglia of NY 12:39PM June 06, 2009