Need help with a formal letter of complaint about a manager.?

Question

I am trying to write a letter of grievence about my manager, and have a meeting with the owners of the company that I work for.

I have specific instances of lack of knowledge of job skills. Personal retalation and discussing poor performances with co workers, are also some the things that I need to write about.
Poor work ethic, and personal sexual innuendo are also involved. Passive aggressive management skills and zeroing in on one specific employee at a time, along with favortism are also some of the complaints of the staff.
We have a very hostile work enviroment, coupled with disassociation in the workplace.

How should I start?
Should I list specific instances that I am personally aware of, even though it includes my co workers, and not always myself?

Thank you in advance.

Thank you for the advice that this can come back to bite me, but I am at the place of turning in a resignation. I feel that I can not work for a person of such poor quality any longer. So if I get fired, I will go to the labor board, and file a suit through the whistle blowers act.

Answer 1

Glad you understand the consequences of your actions. That is very important, because there will be fall out to you. Yes, you can go into court, probably more under EEOC retaliation than whistle blower law. Whistle blower in most states means that an employee reported the employer to a Government agency/police not to the owners of the company. So in most states you would be out of luck. In addition, even if the whislte blower law covered you, that is a very expensive court case to bring, in Illinois legal fees would be well over $5,000.

BUT BEFORE you start writing you should make sure that what you are complaining about is indeed illegal. Go to www.eeoc.gov to see what the federal laws about employee discrimination are. You should also go to your state's human rights department/commission/ group website to see what your state laws cover. I am sure you will be surprised.

Just looking at your post, the majority of your accusations are NOT illegal UNLESS you can prove that the manager does things because of discrimination (www.eeoc.gov). Discrimination bases are age, sex, race, ethnic origin, religion, etc.

Playing favorites is NOT against the law, nor is discussing other employee's performance, unless it is due to discrimination by the bases listed at www.eeoc.gov. "Passive agggressive management skills" and "disassociation in the workplace" are not illegal and just worthless psycho-babble that does not belong in a legitmate complaint.

Answer 2

Be careful this can come back to bite you.
Think about what you want to happen and what you will do if you don't get your results.
Separate what you know from what you think and what everyone agrees. If you know something for sure like lack of knowledge of job skills they may already know what he knows or doesn't but document it as specifically as you can. So if you say he doesn't know the software and you know it because he hasn't been able to find answers to specific issues they may send him for training or have you teach him what he needs to know, how will you know when he knows enough?
Poor worth ethic means what to you? Does he show up late, take an average of 65 minutes for lunch, play video games at his desk? What do you want done about it? Do you want them to put in time clocks or a better firewall?
Have you spoken to him about your problem with sexual innuendo? Have others spoken to him about it? Can you site specifics?
Will you be happy if they call him in and talk to him, send him for classes and management classes or are you only going to be happy with his firing? If they refuse to fire him will you quit then sue or sue without quiting? Are the other employees willing to quit in mass or go to court and testify against the company they work for risking their job for you?

Answer 3

placed down something you witnessed and incorporate the dates and situations. additionally, if all and sundry replaced into recent for the duration of those incidents, you're able to have them sign. you're able to have been keeping diverse notes with regard to the area. this could supply you credibility and it could be very complicated for him to refute the allegations once you have specifics.