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Trouble at Work-Stepped on toes-don't know what to do
Hello all:
I work at this place for more than a year now and was promoted once. I had trouble long time ago when I started and made myself fit in. All of a sudden I have arrows coming from all sides. It is a place where obviously big egos live. Some with no qualifications, but have an art of kissing someone's behind.
I know that I stepped on some toes. I started apologizing to the smallest toe this morning as this person is genuinely nice hard working guy. I shouted at him yesterday when we had a task that had to be finished by end of the day. He argued that he was right we were all wrong on our team, in fact he was being defensive and trying to push so that he does not wind up correcting his part of the work. I stepped in and showed him black and white methodology written for all 10 teams working on the project. He kept on telling me that was wrong and he does not have to follow that. I got angry and told him that his boss and boss's boss has accepted this. He gave up but it left us all with very bad taste in our mouth. He obviously complained to his boss, who sided with him and said the methodology was wrong and told his whole team the same thing. Worse part was this boss guy brain washed our administration department's head who is an ex-cop. He is a bully and wants his way with everyone. Every time he was in trouble I had bailed him out. I had inspired him every time he was down. From his cop days he brought two of his girl friends to work at this place so they just spy on people all day.
I had not stepped on his toes directly, but when the head of our department, a lady who is also just interested in playing politics and does not know anything about the job, who ran into me and my subordinate and said are you guys finished? I said yes. She said was it beneficial to go thru' this exercise, I said yes, but we needed to talk. Boy that was a wrong move. She immediately went to my boss and the administration head and asked them what went wrong today. They thought that she was referring to their mistakes in this process and not what I was referring to. They had a huge fight and then started searching who said what about who. They some how connected the dots or she told them directly that I had told her that I wanted to speak to her. So these both guys are also against me now. And made nasty remarks all day of course jokingly that I was a trouble maker etc. Now all the little people want my positions are also joining in. I am so upset that for small mistake and misunderstanding I have to go thru' this. I also feel it will not end because they fel I am the snitch. One of them asked a friend of mine on another team to call me, now I just started telling him everything and feel very odd that that person called me at home, never before and then next day the questioning from the cop continued.
What can I do and how can I correct this?
Thank you.
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