Hello,
I would like to have your opinion about something that's literally killing me. I have worked from October to May last year at a job with such awful people that I thought I was in a nightmare. They quickly scapegoated me. I think one woman felt threatened as I was talking with some guys in the office, each time I would see this guy to help me with reports for my boss she will turn straight to me without saying a word and will just stare until I left. As there were dramas in a job I did just before this one (still with women), I have chosen to just ignore her and hope that she will stop. One day I was in the elevator with her and the same guy told me "remember I won't be here tomorrow hopefully it can wait till Monday", so I wish him a happy weekend. She turned and faced me and said "you've just arrived and you are already on great terms with G, if I were you I would be careful, you are not the only one after him", I just replied "sorry, what you mean?", and then she started laughing and I laughed with her. From that moment I felt very uncomfortable, like a feeling in my belly but I wanted to keep the job and my boss was very nice, maybe too nice and this as well was the problem.

Slowly after this the situation started to degrade, I would tried to participate in group conversation with some people and they would just pretend they didn't hear or will reply dryly. One of them was asking me question about something and almost yelled at me, one of her colleagues had to ask her to calm down.

I just felt horrible there and did not understand what was happening to me, and I was in a really bad cycle in my life which didn't help, my ex and I had just broken up our 10 year relationship and I had just moved to a new place...

Anyway I will put an end to this awful story when a woman at the office who started to be on my case as well by making stupid remarks on my work and I stayed calm and put her in her place. She did a lot of small provocative stuff to get on me and finally I sent her an email telling her to consult me or my boss before modifying anything. From there she walked straight to my desk and insulted me with lots of awful words and asked me to shut up. I smiled like to say how stupid can you be, and she pushed the screen of my computer to me and it just fell on the desk but I was very shocked and shaking. I quickly called my boss who was on holidays to tell him what happened and that I wanted to quit.
He was like get some rest and come back tomorrow please, I need you.
Then I left, called the HR and my temp agency to tell them what happened, they looked supportive at the beginning but quickly ask me to come back. My temp agency told me that my boss liked me and wanted me to stay and as I still did not want they threatened to not pay me the compensation if I did not finish the contract.
I went back two days later, feeling really crappy and before that the HR asked me for a meeting and she said everybody said it was a simple argument and that I misinterpreted the woman's actions. I could not believe that. I was stunned and angry.

I finished my contract and during 2 more weeks I had to drag myself there. My boss talked to the girl and she answered that it is the way she is and that she has a strong character like all Mediterranean people (she is Moroccan). They did not take any disciplinary actions, nothing and the others clearly supported her or didn't take position.

What was even more horrible, is that 2 weeks after I lost my grandmother and we were very close.

I am not very close from the rest of my family apart one of my sister. It was as if I had an awakening and saw them for whom they really are.

Anyway my post is mainly to ask you what you would have done in my case? I still feel angry and hurt when I think about these people even though I am trying to put that behind me, I still feel disgusted that they were able to get away with it and just took pleasure hurting me.

I have never been confronted to that before and it was very painful. I don't wish that to anybody.

Please any advice to not let this happen again.