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[quote=Anonymous]Would you go to Hr or how do you solve this without losing your job?

A senior manager in my department asked me to hire his niece for an open entry level position in my sub department. He even arranged to get her put on as a temp to get her through the system.  While we were arranging the logistics of the position, I was able to "test" her out by giving her some work.  Her work was awful. Didn't finish any assignments. Showed up late, left early and was uncoachable.

I told him that I needed to interview a minimum of 3 candidates, per company rules. I hired a more qualified candidate with a stronger portfolio and more experience. My direct supervisor agreed with the decision.

Since I passed on his niece, he's turned on me. He used to be an advocate and mentor.He now is impossible to work with. He spoke ill of me to another department. Purposely missed deadlines for joint project and got furious when I had to go to another manager for last minute help. He even lodged an unfounded complaint to my bosses boss about me being insubordinate and incompetent regarding handling a client assignment. Luckily, my boss was with me for the interaction in question and was able to counter it. Along with a glowing letter from our client. This guy never says anything to me directly or even to my boss - he always goes two steps above.

I feel like I'm being bullied. I used to love my job but now I'm scared to do anything. My company is very hierarchical and they always take a senior managers word over a junior. My boss "doesn't want to rock the boat" and wants me to just take it.

What would you do?  The soonest I can look for a job is early 2016.
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