Well its happened again....... For the 2nd time in 15 months I've lost my job.....
I feel that I've been given a rough ride of it though and don't really think I have been treated right.... Been with the company 6 months today.... When I was employed by them my now director was my manager, and my now manager was just another consultant - albeit a more senior one lol....
When I started I was given a training plan to get me up to speed on their products. Would be quite a plan as they told me that I wouldn't be confident with the entire suite of software for probably around 2 years - Oh I'm an IT training consultant so by the nature of the job I need to know more than the client, and as the software is bespoke I wouldn't be expected to know it when joining.....
When the 2 guys got promoted in the new year the now director decided to set me some targets.... They were a bit ambitious - given the 2 years I had been told before. My new manager told me that the new targets should be taken with a pinch of salt and that he would 'have a word' with the director..... I asked if everything was ok and was told yes.....
Over the last few weeks the director has been poking his nose in and kept insisting on progress checks. I told my manager but got the reply of not to worry..
I turned up for a training session today - after driving 5 1/2 hours to get there and was wheeled in front of HR and told it wasn't working out and that they were letting me go......
I asked why and was told that I hadn't met my targets.... Now both the director and the manager have clammed up and won't say anything to me... They say that as its under 12 months they only need to give me a month notice, which is what they have done today.... I'm not to go back to work though
I feel like I've been seen off by both concerned and feel very angry that one seems to be playing it all down and the upshot is that I've lost my job....
Sure this can't be right... Anyone out there got experience of this sort of thing as I just can't see that they can just get rid of someone like that.... I did a probation period, surely they should have been doing this sort of thing then, not once they have made me permanent.....
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