Audrey Wulff
Ripoff Office Bully Who Abuses Authority Discriminates and Forcefully Harasses San Franisco

Working for Ms. Wulff, I felt like she had planned for me all along to be one of her conquests. Ms. Wulff confused her personal insecurities with women in having a strong desire to dominate them like a husband does a wife, with her professional responsibilities to treat highly skilled workers with respect and to respect their personal boundaries.

Ms. Wulff had no experience as a manager over people prior to being a coordinator and then a full fledged manager over 30 secretaries at a law firm. She was just an entry level help desk person at a law firm in 1999.

Audrey Wulff got away with discriminating against me as someone who performed a lot of overtime and gave 99.8% in her job. I had passed all of their tests and a co-worker with my title during the day who fell far below the typing speed requirement, was allowed to go unsupervised with far fewer demands.

Ms. Wulff began to treat me like I was her secretary even though I was the only night support staff as a Technical Document Specialist for a 3 floors of attorneys and LA's. No one ever complained to Ms. Wulff about my work quality or missed deadlines in 2 years I was working there. When I told her my workload was getting to be insane due to the growth of the firm, Ms. Wulff suggested I perform clerical work in her office during my downtimes. Wulff was a humiliating, de-energizing individual.

Ms. Wulff's former Eastern block country she came from as a second generation American resonated loudly in her persona and how she treated me as an American of many generations. I felt bulldozed by a foreigner out of a good job I worked hard to obtain and keep.

Ms. Wulff did not care what a great job I had done at the firm (all the others prior to me had been fired), and only cared about any slight hint that I wasn't too thrilled working with her in her increasingly annoying, aggressive and harassing nature of management. Too much was being demanded of me while my day counterpart was allowed to perform below average with little supervision at 40% less production.in fact, this employee actually viewed himself as a "supervisor" of the secretarial staff and got away with such an attitude (a man).

After I was terminated w/o severance for complaining about unfair treatment, I filled out the forms at the EEOC and was prepared to file a huge case with exhibits. The EEOC intake person reviewed my case and said I had a weak case for gender discrimination. The reason was, I put in writing I was no longer available for overtime. The nature of my response to unfair treatment had hurt my case significantly.

Ms. Wulff often humiliated me by frequently associating me with clerical tasks though I was often performing advanced skills far above the average Legal Word Processor. The level of my performance was extremely high. This supervisor deliberately chose to ignore the tremendous job I performed to reduce me to a clerical worker. This, while Ms. Wulff personally trained clerical workers from Kaiser Permanente, who had no previous law firm background, to be legal secretaries.

Ms. Wulff was rude, militant and forced me into overtime for the sake of making me miserable. She knew I was sick with allergies on prescribed medication and still called late at 11:00pm from home for revisions and expected me to stay to complete them even though I would have to work into early Saturday morning. All this while Ms. Wulff did not demand nearly as much from the day staff counterpart who did far less work and overtime.

At the end of my 2 years, I had performed 151 hours of overtime and had a good reputation among attorneys and the staff. Ms. Wulff was jealous and wanted to keep me down to make herself look good. She actually had the nerve to lower my TDS position below the Notaries in the firm's office guide hierarchy. Wulff demoted my position and asked me to make the changes and that is what provoked my final complaint and termination.

Hardly anyone really liked Ms. Wulff due to her militant, abrasive, annoying personality. Most put on a mask when forced to having to meet with her to discuss their performance, including myself. I was forced to have to work with her more than most as I didn't have the protection of a group of attorneys on a team. I worked for too many of them and thus my support only came once a year during review time.

I was made to feel that I was in the military and that Ms. Wulff could bark orders at me as if I was a soldier who had to carry out her demands immediately or face a military discharge. That is the nature of my former work relationship with a bully who discriminates knowing she has at-will employment laws on her side. They can fire anyone for any reason without any warning and get away with it unless they violate any of the California Employment Codes.

Ms. Wulff was forceful and acted like a police officer with the authority to harass and annoy in spite of complaints of discrimination. Two years into my employment, she was moving in for the kill, a virtual predator with a Blackberry who would sit at home with 3 children, sending e-mails at midnight over ridiculous print job petty matters.

Ms. Wulff treated me like I was invisible as if she was doing the work through me and when I no longer served a purpose to her inflated ego, she just wanted to get rid of me. She did not want to give individuals credit for their efforts and viewed everyone as one team on the same skill level and that everyone was really working to show how great she was as a manager. Kind of like socialism. Dictatorship.

Company: Audrey Wulff
Country: USA
State: California
City: San Francisco
Address: 555 California St. #2700

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