manchesterblack
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Here's the situation:
My friend works for a company. Her position was being eliminated. Her boss, a high ranking VP, has a closed door meeting with a manager in a different office and the next day they tell my friend the manager in the other office has agreed to hire her for a position there.
Three weeks in they're threatening to begin termination proceedings for her not performing to the standards they require.
The manager is telling her people in her position are required to, let's say, close 40 case files a day.
Speaking to someone in the office who was hired two weeks before her in the same position, this person is only at 35 cases a day and is receiving no such warnings. As it would also happen my friend had to undergo several time consuming office aptitude tests for the position (she has extensive office experience) and the other person was not required to take these same tests.
My friend was trained to do the work using one method but the standard practice she's finding is to do it entirely another.
My theory is that her former boss the VP called in a favor and got her hired but that manager, unable to say no to that VP, hired her and is now attempting to find ways to terminate her.
Valid theory or not, (and I admit this is a personal theory based on my own past experience in a similar situation and an assessment of the circumstances but of course is totally irrelevant) it seems to me that my friend has been poorly trained, perhaps intentionally, and held to unrealistic standards others are not subjected to. If she were to be fired it's my thought she file a wrongful termination lawsuit with perhaps a side of harassment for treatment and squalid working conditions (the office fridge has mold, the restrooms are never restocked with toilet paper, seat covers, soap or paper towels--people have to bring in their own soap and TP--and this is not a small mom and pop, we're talking a publicly traded Fortune 500 company here).
What would be the general viewpoint here? Would she have a case, a leg to stand on...any insight would be appreciated. Thank you.
My friend works for a company. Her position was being eliminated. Her boss, a high ranking VP, has a closed door meeting with a manager in a different office and the next day they tell my friend the manager in the other office has agreed to hire her for a position there.
Three weeks in they're threatening to begin termination proceedings for her not performing to the standards they require.
The manager is telling her people in her position are required to, let's say, close 40 case files a day.
Speaking to someone in the office who was hired two weeks before her in the same position, this person is only at 35 cases a day and is receiving no such warnings. As it would also happen my friend had to undergo several time consuming office aptitude tests for the position (she has extensive office experience) and the other person was not required to take these same tests.
My friend was trained to do the work using one method but the standard practice she's finding is to do it entirely another.
My theory is that her former boss the VP called in a favor and got her hired but that manager, unable to say no to that VP, hired her and is now attempting to find ways to terminate her.
Valid theory or not, (and I admit this is a personal theory based on my own past experience in a similar situation and an assessment of the circumstances but of course is totally irrelevant) it seems to me that my friend has been poorly trained, perhaps intentionally, and held to unrealistic standards others are not subjected to. If she were to be fired it's my thought she file a wrongful termination lawsuit with perhaps a side of harassment for treatment and squalid working conditions (the office fridge has mold, the restrooms are never restocked with toilet paper, seat covers, soap or paper towels--people have to bring in their own soap and TP--and this is not a small mom and pop, we're talking a publicly traded Fortune 500 company here).
What would be the general viewpoint here? Would she have a case, a leg to stand on...any insight would be appreciated. Thank you.