a friend just called needing advice. after successfully getting a job two years ago he feels a member of staff is victimising him by spreading rumours and gossip and failing to relay information. he says the person concerned tried to get his friend a job two years ago and failed because he got the job and because of this he took an instant dislike to him he has been spreading stupid rumours amongst staff. eg his wife is seeing someone etc failing to relay information and when my friend as made a mistake he told the manager i told him and he must not have been listening playing silly games when my friend has been struggling he has told other staff to let him struggle he flagged it with his manager 2 weeks ago when he overheard a member of staff saying that my friend was being monitored because he was not pulling his weight. the manager questioned staff and it come down to this one member of staff. the manager said take no notice hes just winding you up. they work a rota on jobs and today when he went in. the job he is on was done by the other last week. tools were hidden or missing process sheets were put into the wrong order. urgent orders were put at the back he come home today and called me and feels the only way is to leave or go on sick leave he his a quiet person who likes to keep him self to his self he has just called me back with this information about a month ago the union rep was having a general chat and he went to the toilet. the next day the union rep said he had to walk out of the room because the talk between the others he felt was work place bullying and the union rep reported what he heard to the manager. my friend never heard anything else about the incident