The Situation
There is a visa tied to the job. There are eleven months until something vests. There is a mortgage, or a reference you need, or a market where nobody is hiring. So you stay, and you spend forty hours a week somewhere that takes something out of you, and by the weekend there is not much left for anyone at home.
What people describe is rarely one villain. It is more often an atmosphere: a place where things get said, where the tone is set from somewhere above, where you find yourself rehearsing conversations in the car.
What I Actually Do
This is a boundary, not a change to the place. I am not working on your manager, your colleagues or the company, and I would not take the order if that were what you were asking for. I am working on what reaches you while you are there.
Ten days, set around the hours you are in the building rather than held continuously - which is why it costs less than the open-ended protection work. The report tells you what I found and, more usefully, what tends to weaken this kind of boundary, because there are things people do without noticing that undo it.
What This Will Not Do
It will not get anyone fired, moved or reprimanded, and it will not make a manager behave differently. If what is happening to you is discrimination, harassment or bullying in the legal sense, there is a process for that and it has teeth that I do not. Use it. This work sits alongside that, not instead of it.