I guess this is not abnormal here at TD. If you have a colleague you have to work with every day, who licks manager’s a**, and keeps backstabbing you, what would you do to handle it professionally?
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Find a new job. Then you get to relish the thought of the backstabber and the id--t boss who didn't see what was going on getting to pick up your workload.
Excellent advice. Here is a warning and maybe shred of hope. Get a sense of how much the backstabber is in kahoots and/or favor with leaders. If this person is a favorite and considered high potential, you need to be extra vigilant. Keep documents and recordings (not illegal, think Webex meetings) and try to get in writing being thrown under the bus as much as you can. Save it. Beware of talking to mgmt or h-r because you could be seen as a troublemaker and get kicked out. Keep head down,but don’t be a push over. The hope, and I have seen it happen at TD, karma kicks in. I have seen it happen in numerous occasions and have survived…although I wish now that I hadn’t. What comes around goes around i… it might take a year but it can happen.
In Teradata you have two options:
Option 1: endure the abuse, and meditate. Try to rise above it. Keep telling yourself, this will pass. May take some time, but don't let it get to you. Don't be combative, shut down. Respond only when spoken to. Try to avoid 1-on1's as much as you can.
Option 2: Outwit, Outplay, Outlast. whatever that may be. But it's exhausting. Record the microaggressions, the abuse, the emails, everything. Document.