nigelpowers
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Washington
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Washington
I was just terminated after receiving a raise AND a bonus. Back in January, my manager was unable to lead his team (which I was on), and made me the scapegoat: he called me into a conference room with HR and slandered me by claiming I was sleeping with the Program Manger on the team, and that numerous people had said that I wanted to leave the team. When I asked for examples, they wouldn't give me any information. The HR representative wanted to put me on a performance plan, but my manager deferred, saying that it wasn't necessary. I logged ALL of his requests to me for the next week or so, and then he was told to work on a different project, and to not manage me anymore.
I qualified for, and received my full quarterly bonus.
A week ago, I had my annual review, and was given a raise.
Fast-forward to yesterday: the director of the dept fired me for "these behavior issues going back to January" and threw in "intimidation" as a new allegation/slander against my character (again, providing absolutely no frame of reference). The director said that he personally had not observed any of the behaviors I was accused of (we've shared about 25 meetings over the last 4 months), but the behavior was intolerable and I had to go.
I know that I have been working "at the whim" of my employer but I hadn't realized that workers can be treated like this now. It's really OK to just blindly slander an employee? To me, it seems painfully obvious that they fired me now because they couldn't AFFORD to fire me back in January, and that my former manager has some kind of golden calf status at the company (this is the 3rd project that has horribly failed under his leadership). They tried to make me leave of their own accord, and when that didn't work, they waited until my project was done and THEN fired me. If the behavior was "intolerable," why did they tolerate it, give my bonus, and give me a raise?
I haven't signed my agreement with this company in which a affirm my consent to just lie down and take it. But I'm ready to. I just thought I should post my story in case I do have some kind of legal recourse available. After reading many of the posts on this board, though, I'm going to guess that my best option is to go get a new job. But if someone out there thinks I DO have a valid complaint, I would love to hear some feedback.
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Washington
I was just terminated after receiving a raise AND a bonus. Back in January, my manager was unable to lead his team (which I was on), and made me the scapegoat: he called me into a conference room with HR and slandered me by claiming I was sleeping with the Program Manger on the team, and that numerous people had said that I wanted to leave the team. When I asked for examples, they wouldn't give me any information. The HR representative wanted to put me on a performance plan, but my manager deferred, saying that it wasn't necessary. I logged ALL of his requests to me for the next week or so, and then he was told to work on a different project, and to not manage me anymore.
I qualified for, and received my full quarterly bonus.
A week ago, I had my annual review, and was given a raise.
Fast-forward to yesterday: the director of the dept fired me for "these behavior issues going back to January" and threw in "intimidation" as a new allegation/slander against my character (again, providing absolutely no frame of reference). The director said that he personally had not observed any of the behaviors I was accused of (we've shared about 25 meetings over the last 4 months), but the behavior was intolerable and I had to go.
I know that I have been working "at the whim" of my employer but I hadn't realized that workers can be treated like this now. It's really OK to just blindly slander an employee? To me, it seems painfully obvious that they fired me now because they couldn't AFFORD to fire me back in January, and that my former manager has some kind of golden calf status at the company (this is the 3rd project that has horribly failed under his leadership). They tried to make me leave of their own accord, and when that didn't work, they waited until my project was done and THEN fired me. If the behavior was "intolerable," why did they tolerate it, give my bonus, and give me a raise?
I haven't signed my agreement with this company in which a affirm my consent to just lie down and take it. But I'm ready to. I just thought I should post my story in case I do have some kind of legal recourse available. After reading many of the posts on this board, though, I'm going to guess that my best option is to go get a new job. But if someone out there thinks I DO have a valid complaint, I would love to hear some feedback.