One week after going to HR about her, I was fired by my manager.

One week after going to HR about her, I was fired by my manager.

I asked the HR rep who let me go for a "list of the performance metrics (numbers) I wasn't hitting that constituted grounds for termination" because my role was to achieve targets and I exceeded them.

He said, "we have a holistic approach when assessing an employee’s performance and, as such, we do not solely focus on metrics or numbers-based performance. Examples of things we look at when assessing performance include, but are not limited to, quality of communication (written and verbal), quality of presentations (when applicable), adherence to deadlines and overall time management, quality of work product, feedback from clients and/or internal stakeholders, and numbers-based performance metrics."

Again, there's nothing tangible in there and I was receiving praise from other colleagues and clients. Bottom line, I feel as if my termination was not only unjust, but also an act of retaliation. My manager was a bully who, on one occasion, had the audacity to yell at me (literally yell at me - I have it recorded) as I was completing a document AFTER going for a stress test that I had to get BECAUSE of her. There's a lot more to our relationship but she was a bully in every sense of the word. I have to sign my release agreement shortly but, I'm curious to know if anyone else has been in a similar situation and whether or not I should seek an employment lawyer or just sign the papers and be done with it?