How do you overcome a boss that is retaliating against you?

Ok, so my boss is basically a very intelligent, yet extremely arrogrant control freak. She is miserable in her personal life and takes it out on her team (there's 3 of us). Her method of running a team is to bully her employees and make herself look good. The problem is her boss seems to love her.

Several months back I posted for an internal job with the company. The position would have been a management promotion. However, it would have been outside my current department. Rather than encouraging me for trying to move up in the company, she basically saw this as an act of disloyality and has been extremely unpleasant to me since.

Ever since then, she has completely nitpicked every thing I do including unfairly giving me harsh treatment different than my peers. She even has gone so far as to threaten to put me on a performance improvement plan which would not allow me to post to any more internal jobs.

Aside from getting a new job outside, is there anything else I can do?

You don't have to retaliate which will make the matter worst. Just have a private meeting with her and explain your side. Tell what you like about her and what you don't like. Ask her why she is like that to her subordinates even before you posted for a transfer.

You can then get the permission to talk to her immediate boss if you are not satisfied with her explanation, with or without her presence.

She may need some performance improvement, too.

You should report her. Someone has to listen.

quit yesterday after leaving a piece of cheese on the block of his engine and a dead fish in the air intake. dont forget the bananna in his exhaust.

BBB = Better Business Bureau. Though you may think that The BBB is for consumers, talk to her boss, or if you don't want to do that then talk to your boss's boss's boss. lol IF that makes sense. If thats too confusing talk to the BBB they may help you.

I'm so sorry to hear that your boss is a jerk.
Have you reported her activities to her boss? Tell this person that your boss, has been treating you unfairly and bring up times that she has done so in front of other co workers. Explain that you would love to move up in the company, but your boss has made you feel that your work isn't good enough for the good of the company.
If you don't get the "Ok we see that your a hard team playing member of our company, blah blah blah....." , and the company just says "Oh No It's You blah blah blah......" then it's time to say "Bye-Bye"
I hope that everything works in your favor!