Quick summary:

Got hired last september to a well paying remote IT job and quickly realized my boss V, a creepy middleaged incel, did it with sinister motives. There were many red flags from the get go, such as sending a book to my address without asking, being overly fixated in charity work I do related to child and women exploitation (he has asked me 'why it was important to me personally" and hes repeatedly brought it up around other members of the team despite it having nothing to do with what we do, despite me not bringing it up ever). He's having an affair with a female coworker, B, who is completely unqualified and clearly mentally unstable. Before working at this company she used to be a manager at McDonalds. They make no effort to hide this affair. Because B's name is the same as my middle name, she and V have repeatedly asked me if they could call me B instead, so they'd be calling both of us B. I said no but despite this he would many times call me B, specially in front of the team. They are both extremely creepy. One time B and I were talking about a city where she studied and where I now study, and she was telling me cool places to visit, and told me "X is really nice but don't go there at night because because its very isolated and someone could harm you and no one could hear you scream.". What the fuuuuuck They have both asked me for my address in this other city under one excuse or the other, but I havent given it to them.

From the beginning it was clear the team did not take me seriously, and while V has told me he hired me for my "exceptional extra curricular activities" and other skills, he has pretty much ignored all of that and it was clear he didnt expect me to have the slightest knowledge of IT.

My job is 100% remote except for conferences, which I have never been to with the excuses of classes as I am still in college.

It's a 12 month internship and ends in September.

The plan is to do as much as I can and learn as much as I can ( the resources they have and the stuff I have access to is unbelievable and a goldmine for learning) and starting month 9-10 start sending out CVs and get the f outta this company. There are more red flags, which I'll get into.

I don't think V will renew my contract because I avoid him and his minions like the plague and since they realized I'm actually qualified they all pretty much began ignoring me and all the forced niceness pretty much evaporated.

So this what has happened since my last post.

V has a number 2 called J (I'll call him skinny J to distinguish him from the other one, the fat J), a young incel who he left in charge briefly during his parental leave. He has treated me like absolute shit, he was incredibly creepy and would always humiliate me in front of the team. Because he's a coom brained idiot, he did most of this in the chat, so I could take screenshots and so our managers (the americans, the company is american) could see it. I don't know what happened but all of a sudden this behavior stopped and he was very nice to me. Then the peer reviews happened and I spilled everything. Now its on record what a creepy little shit he is. He has left me alone since.

Now some very good news. I stumbled upon something that might work very well for me, and I've been working on this project. When I started, a colleague I will call U came out of the woodworks and volunteered to help me. U is very experienced. However, we didnt interact much because on the 2nd week I joined the company, our boss (D, the american) made an emergency meeting and told us U had been fired and was under investigation. He wouldn't tell us why. B told me she thought that it could be related to him mishandling confidential data (as in, bragging about it or looking into things he wasnt supposed to). A couple of months went by and he was suddenly reinstated because the investigation proved him innocent. D clearly wasn't happy about this and even though D is U's manager, they don't like each other very much.

Now U is 'helping" me, in a project that involves confidential data. I entertained him for some time as he gave me some guidance and some tips here and there, but it all felt very half hearted and not particularly helpful. I have a feeling he's stalling the project at this point. In the beginning I pretty much had to chase him to get him to schedule a meeting with me, and now that this is getting interesting he's the one chasing me. He sent me a message in a rude tone that read something like "Do you mind scheduling a meeting to talk about your investigation?". I did, and then unscheduled it 🤭. The investigation is nearly concluded. I'll have a report done by next week, and I didnt let him take part in the most critical part of it. I dont trust him, I dont like his tone and call me paranoid, but I suspect his intention is to stall and misguide me, the naive province girl intern, so I don't get anywhere and they take this out of my hands and give it to him. Either that or he wants credit. I wont let that happen.

The best thing is that I am getting good at this and I might have another big project on the way.

The next couple months will be critical.

Meanwhile, I have to work with another creepy scrote, P. P is the guy who handles the part of the infrascructure I need for this project, which isnt well documented so i have to talk to him. He has pretty much ignored and been rude to me, until our first zoom call. Now he's always available, always helpful, never inconvenienced about helping me despite making faces and rolling his eyes and sneering when he thinks im not looking. He'll randomly message me to ask if i need help. I guess he must find me hot. We had a meeting today that started around 5pm and if I hadn't made an excuse he'd drag it until well after 7pm. When we jump on zoom calls for him to help me he talks to me very slowly like im stupid and he always drags them on longer than necessary. For someome who wouldn't give me the time of the day at first now I cant seem to get rid of him. Mind you that this man is around 40 (so are V and U) and often I can hear his kids in the house and even his wife during meetings.

I'm beginning to think there is a generalized problem with sexual harrassment in this company. I haven't felt this targetted or creeped out even in college. I feel more comfortable walking alone at night than talking to some of these people remotely. Every time V mentions my address I spend the rest of the day looking over my shoulder. I don't get this feeling from the american colleagues so it could be just this branch. It's really fucking weird.

Anyway wish me luck, only 6 months to gtfo and I'll make the most of it.

PS speaking of the address thing, I read that Harvey Weinstein used to put PIs after women he assaulted to intimidate them and find dirt on them, I cant help but to feel theres a similar sinister purpose here. I could be paranoid, but if Im right i have to wonder where he got thos idea/ who he learned it from.

EDIT: So I got another angry message from U, almost demanding I schedule another meeting and keep him updated on the investigation. He said he "needed" to be updated. I messaged him back asking him to clarify exactly what his position on this was, as I believed he was only there for support and not as a manager or supervisor, and apologised profusely for being a naive clueless noob and told him I meant no disrespect yadda yadda He then sent me a huge wall of text that went something like "No of course you have no professional obligation to report to me, but I believe we were in this as colaborators and I proposed some ideas and lobbied for you and this project and budget for this project around V [this budget was around 150€ by the way], and if I am not updated what will I tell V when he asks me for updates? Also I work for X department for which the results kf this investigation could ve very interesting. i'm sorry if I did something you disliked and i am always here if you need anything!" Basically this but with more bullshit. I replied that no, he didnt do anything wrong, that I've been keeping V updated, in fact had just spoken to him, and thanked him deeply for his help and left it at that.

Holy shit these people are so fucking sketchy.