Try our just-for-fun quiz to find out!

1 It's Monday morning. Does your boss:

a) Greet you with a wave and a smile?
b) Physically exclude you from conversation by turning their back on you, while chatting with your colleagues?
c) Spend the morning on the phone to HR seeing if they can discipline you for some "offence" they have come up with, even though it is not actually mentioned in the company disciplinary policy?

2 Taking full advantage of the recession, your company forces through (without consultation) changes to your job which both make it harder to do and increase your workload. You point out the need for training and support - does your boss:

a) Take your points on board, and act on them?
b) Nod sagely, but stipulate that the changes must happen first, before training and support is provided?
c) Spend the afternoon on the phone to HR seeing if they can discipline you for insubordination, or refusing a managerial request?

3 Your boss unlawfully deducts a day's annual leave from you (there is nothing in your contract which allows for this, they do not have statutory authority to do so, and you did not consent to it). You have never heard of this happening to anyone at your workplace before. On raising it with HR:

a) You receive a swift acknowledgement, an apology, and your day's annual leave is returned. Your boss is reprimanded by HR for flouting employment law.
b) The Teflon Head of HR repeatedly refers your complaint about the company behaving illegally to his subordinates to be dealt with (read: "swept under the carpet").
c) HR places a note in your file for remonstrating with them. This can be used to help build a case against you at a later date. The day's annual leave is not returned.

4 Having disciplined you for the heinous offence of "stepping on the cracks in the pavement", you ask your boss for some training on avoidance of cracks in the pavement. Does your boss:

a) Observe the statutory guidance in the ACAS Code of Practice on Disciplinary Procedures, explaining how you are expected to avoid the cracks in future, and giving required training?
b) Return you to exactly the same situation for which you were disciplined, refusing to provide training or support, and with no guidance on crack avoidance?
c) As for b) - but then also discipline you again within a few weeks, again for stepping on the cracks in the pavement?

5 Faced with an Employment Tribunal claim, does your employer:

a) Demonstrate a commitment to good employment practice by addressing your grievances thoroughly in-house, so that a Tribunal becomes unnecessary?
b) Make clear that it will contest the ET vigorously, as HR is absolutely confident that the company has behaved properly in its dealings with you at all times?
c) Buy its way out of a Tribunal claim (and your silence), getting shot of you at the same time, by offering a so-called "compromise agreement"/pay-off?

Answers
Mostly a): You are probably related to your boss
Mostly b): Mainly bullying behaviour
Mostly c): Mainly victimising behaviour
(NB This is not legal advice)