How can I protect myself when my boss dislikes me?
I’m currently looking for advice as I started a new job that was an amazing opportunity and even though the environment is a bit toxic, I would not like to leave it due to it being impactful work that I’ve always wanted to do.
From starting this job, my department is a department that is disliked from the rest of the company so even from the interview, I could tell something was a little bit off. As soon as I started my job as my supervisor is not the one who hires, but the person above her I was hired, but from the interview, I could already tell the supervisor dislike my personal personality.
For context, this is a very older woman who has been at that job for almost 20 years and does minimal work. Because the type of work is something I am passionate about. I do have ideas and things that we could do to make the department more impactful for the community however, this is something that she has created resistance on and believes my ideas are bad yet higher ups and human resources have loved my ideas which is why they currently want me there. In all honesty I feel like she has a good thing going for her because she gets paid with doing almost no work and me being there could potentially bring more work and responsibility to her if they decide to implement any of the ideas that I have.
Now, because of this, I have seen that she does not explain things well to me or withhold information for me to look bad when I am doing my job. Whenever I speak to her, she looks at other employees when when she thinks I’m not looking and rolls her eyes so everybody in the department now is kind of standoffish towards me.
The work is very meaningful and I plan to stay even if the department treats me a certain way because of my supervisor however I am thinking what can I do to protect myself? Should I document everything maybe in a separate document with dates and times so if something happens, I show that to HR or is that something that HR would not really pay attention to later on?
I am a little bit frustrated because I do not wanna leave the job, but I also wanna protect myself because I am worried that she will slowly try to get me fired.
Any advice?