Reply #18: I've been there before.

[Wapsie B]

Well sorta. I had just been passed over for a promotion when our boss left. They brought someone in from outside the company to run things. Suddenly I could do nothing right. I was micro-managed in everything I did on the job. I had catty notes written in bright red magic marker hanging from my desk every night when I came to work. This person would phone me during my shift and harrange me about whatever they felt like. It got to the point that when my grandmother died, this person asked me, "Well, how does that affect me?" No sympathy whatsoever. I ended up quitting. But I know now that that is what they wanted; to get me out. But in the long run it was the best move of my life.

I'm so sorry you have to go through something like this. It really gets to you.