Deslandres
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- Oklahoma
I made a year with my company back in March. But I was let go this week and was completely blindsided and feel totally betrayed and confused. I'm fresh out of college and this is my first stint in corporate america.
Looks like my manager documented a verbal warning back in November...but never actually said this was a meeting to issue a verbal warning because of my performance. It was a very casual meeting where the manager just gave me some things to work on but never mentioned that the purpose of a meeting was to give a verbal warning.
Fast forward to March after my 1 year anniversary, the manager issued a formal write up...but I clearly misunderstood the paper I was signing. The form was titled "Performance Improvement Plan" and I thought this was my manager being supportive and helping me on how to stay on track because every day my manager would always tell me 'great job...keep doing what you're doing...I'm so proud of how far you've come' and even started to train me on other aspects of the job just days before letting me go. Not at any point during that meeting where they presented the formal write up did they warn me that this is actually what it is...a formal write up. All the while, I'm thinking I'm doing a great job but the manager is documenting the complete opposite. And what's even worse is i signed the write up...so when HR talked to me during my termination meeting, they told me 'you had two write ups that you signed' and I said "i was never written up and i never signed any write ups. i signed one form back in march and that was a plan that me and my manager went over to stay on track" but I didn't know what I was signing was actually a write up because it was never made clear to me and i was never formally asked or addressed in a way of them saying 'you understand what this all is? you understand that if we don't see improvement there will be additional disciplinary action including termination'...nothing. If I honestly knew what I was signing and that I was acutally in trouble and this wasn't my job being awesome and supportive, I would have done much better but I was just told to keep doing what i was doing.
this all may sound silly - it's an at will company, their decision is final and I've been terminated, but do I have any recourse here? In my opinion I was baited into failure.
Looks like my manager documented a verbal warning back in November...but never actually said this was a meeting to issue a verbal warning because of my performance. It was a very casual meeting where the manager just gave me some things to work on but never mentioned that the purpose of a meeting was to give a verbal warning.
Fast forward to March after my 1 year anniversary, the manager issued a formal write up...but I clearly misunderstood the paper I was signing. The form was titled "Performance Improvement Plan" and I thought this was my manager being supportive and helping me on how to stay on track because every day my manager would always tell me 'great job...keep doing what you're doing...I'm so proud of how far you've come' and even started to train me on other aspects of the job just days before letting me go. Not at any point during that meeting where they presented the formal write up did they warn me that this is actually what it is...a formal write up. All the while, I'm thinking I'm doing a great job but the manager is documenting the complete opposite. And what's even worse is i signed the write up...so when HR talked to me during my termination meeting, they told me 'you had two write ups that you signed' and I said "i was never written up and i never signed any write ups. i signed one form back in march and that was a plan that me and my manager went over to stay on track" but I didn't know what I was signing was actually a write up because it was never made clear to me and i was never formally asked or addressed in a way of them saying 'you understand what this all is? you understand that if we don't see improvement there will be additional disciplinary action including termination'...nothing. If I honestly knew what I was signing and that I was acutally in trouble and this wasn't my job being awesome and supportive, I would have done much better but I was just told to keep doing what i was doing.
this all may sound silly - it's an at will company, their decision is final and I've been terminated, but do I have any recourse here? In my opinion I was baited into failure.
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