I was let go by my company of 15 years after multiple promotions, meeting all my goals and receiving strong performance reviews, by a new leader, brought in from the outside.
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I was let go by my company of 15 years after multiple promotions, meeting all my goals and receiving strong performance reviews, by a new leader, brought in from the outside.
He seemed threatened by my competence and almost immediately began to micromanage me in ways that were demeaning and not best practice. He had no expertise in my area of the business and I had another dotted-line yet unofficial boss who told me I was doing excellent work. The new guy ambushed me a few months later with a PIP. His complaints were unfounded and required actions on my part that were untenable. (Such as he wanted to sit in on every meeting I had with members of my team and with my dotted line boss who did not like him.) The PIP document stated I had 30 days to “rectify” things but it was clearly designed to make me leave. I documented some specific mismanagement on his part, including discriminatory treatment, and that to stay I’d need to work for someone else. Just 2 days later I was surprised by a meeting with HR and was walked out of the building. What should I do? And how do I respond to new job applications that ask if I’ve ever been fired? Worried I’ll never get rehired because of this.
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