Keep a log.
Document everything
Document your successes and failures
Document his actions and words.
Document conversations that appear to come from others.
Keep yourself busy.
Get a lawyer.
Sue for creating a hostile workplace.
You need a pattern, though, so make sure you have the documentation.
And start looking quietly, or bring your headphones and work like there’s no tomorrow.
If you go the legal route, it doesn’t hurt that the threshold for age discrimination is 55...
Yes, documentation very important. He should document what he’s doing with his time - every day - no exceptions. That way when they attack with demands for accounts of your time, you can laugh because you have it. You can even fudge it and how are THEY going to argue with it when they don’t have records. Having time records is prima facie better than not having time records, even if it is subjective. I used a cloud based tool called Toggl because it’s very easy to enter your time - I couldn’t use a tool that would have required a lot of time just to learn it.
When you realize that you’re no longer in the loop on anythingl, you’re not being invited to meetings that you would have in the past, when they’re just being downright mean and looking for things to ding you on, that’s when it’s time to get your personal effects out of your office because soon the HR gestapo is going to show up at your door and drum you out of the service.
This happened to me earlier this year - and I’m about the same age. Fortunately, since then I’ve finished my masters degree and am about to embark on a training program to become a yoga teacher.
As a character in Margin Call said, it will suck really hard for a while, then it’ll be fine.
That’s an awful long list, combat_boots. Right now I can barely make through the day - I am paralyzed.
But, I may have a cause of action.