It almost sounded like he reported to you in that he called you at 3 a.m. to say he wasn't going to be in?

Or does he report to your mom? I'm confused.

There are many ways to handle this...and being a manager as well as having been bullied before, there is:

ignore

do something

leave


You can ignore him, and when he acts up, just repeat some phrase that you memorize. Mine was "knock it off" or "that's disrespectful". You just repeat it over and over and pretty soon they just wander off.

Then you could do something, which is either document everything like someone else said, for a little while and then march into HR with all of your achievements that you have brought to the company and lay the situation on the table. Either they need to deal with him or you will continue to bring it to someone's attention. Not sure how many heads are above the heads you are going over, but sometimes that works.

Then there is just leave. I haven't done that one yet. But I almost did. If you are prepared to do the 'something' be prepared to do the 'leaving' as well.

But most of the time I go to the 'ignore' function. I just give them the key phrase and wander off. I don't give them much more than that.