And what stopped you from being fired?
I’ve been “fired” four times from my current job because my boss is a short fused maladjusted inhuman. What’s stopped me from being fired is that I ignored him.
I was on a PIP. Often that means firing is inevitable, but my company has generally had a pretty good culture and I (perhaps foolishly) thought I had a chance of surviving it. While I had a pretty good history of kicking ass at work and have a borderline celebrity reputation with our customer, I was put on a new project that had been going poorly plus I had a newborn with lots of additional needs (born super early - doing fine now) so I wasn’t as focused as I had been before. But it did blindside me - I checked in with my direct (and relatively new) manager weekly and she never mentioned any issues.
I was able to show my bosses that the old me was still there. It was 2 months of hell and stress, and even after I was released from the PIP I questioned if I should still be there. Then that manager left not-so-voluntarily (so I’ve been told) and I felt a weight lifted off my shoulders.
That was almost 2 years ago, 6 years total. Still at that company and stronger than ever with them!
What is a PIP?
lol, yeah, I stopped it from happening with this magical thing called “lying.”
Wow, very curious about this story. Want to share?
Back in the day when I was a teen, I was cooking the time clock at work. Got asked about it on one of the occasions I had and corrected it before they could check it. The time clock we used didn’t log adjustments and everyone had a password that had the ability to adjust the time clock. I’m almost certain I wasn’t the only one doing the same thing. I was more surprised they couldn’t figure out access levels for the thing. Tbf it was a pretty old POS system.
It all makes sense 😆 I don’t blame you for doing it lol
Almost got fired once when a close colleague spread rumors to put her failures on me. I never got to know precisely what she said but it was “extremely bad” and in the realm of harassment (not sexual, but still…).
The management was not sure and did not involve HR to make it formal. I felt under scrutiny for a while, so I kept all the communication to a minimum, strictly professional, not even an emoji or a joke about the weather, all in writing when possible and including other people every time it was possible. It was horrible and stressful. I considered to quit or to ask to be moved since interacting with her was part of a daily routine, but I feared that it could be seen as an admission of guilt.
Eventually she was fired in a round of layoffs and that was the end of it. Later I discovered from some colleagues that they never believed that shit, but nobody stepped in to say anything.
