Supervisor Retaliating After Reporting Mold Issue In Office?

Now probably isn’t the best time to be a federal employee in general, but I was hoping to get some advice on a situation I’m dealing with at work.

My coworker and I were assigned an office that had been unused for a while. When we got our keys and checked it out, we discovered that the entire room and all the furniture were covered in mold.

Our supervisor told us to wipe the mold off with Lysol wipes and move all the furniture out for disposal. (For context, my position is completely unrelated—not facilities or hazard removal.) My coworker and I told our supervisor that we were uncomfortable handling the mold ourselves and wanted to make sure the situation was properly addressed.

The supervisor then said they would take care of it themselves but also explicitly told us that we were not permitted to contact facilities about the issue.

A couple of days later, I emailed my supervisor asking for an update and whether facilities had been contacted. My coworker and I were concerned that Lysol wipes wouldn’t be enough to remediate the mold, and we weren’t sure what the proper process was.

Shortly after, my supervisor told my coworker over the phone that I was using the mold as an excuse to avoid RTO—even though I never brought up RTO at all.

Since then, it feels like I have a target on my back. Supervisors are aggressively monitoring my team’s online status and tracking where I’m sitting at all times, despite my job requiring me to move around the building for meetings. According to every co-worker I've spoken to this is very abnormal behavior.

Another supervisor essentially warned me that I need to “tread lightly” because I’m only two weeks away from completing my three-year probationary period.

At this point, it feels like retaliation for simply raising a health and safety concern. Does anyone have advice on how to proceed? I don’t want to escalate this too soon, but I also don’t want to get blindsided if they’re trying to push me out.