I am also in the same situation. My director has been treatening me with firing for some time now. When we had performance reviews, I was scored as Marginal once in the 7 years I've been there. I have written myself up, told to write my PIP, that my director would train me (I've worked in the administrative for over 40 years supporting C-Suite level executives,) that my director wants more for me than I want for myself, asked why I cannot stay consistent in my support (juggling my director is like trying to hit a tennis ball with a baseball glove,) and that my director does not want to work with anyone else (huh!), I make the him and the department look bad when reports are not submitted on time." We agreed reporting would be my responsibility ("once I learned the culture") and the reports would be reviewed and approved by her/him, but s/he also needs to read the draft once sent, however, I have to print the report, create a file folder, place it on their desk, forward the draft via email and then send a text indicating it is ready for review. After doing all this, the reports were still not reviewed, so I began submitting the reports on time and forwarding all the other at the same time, but I am still the reason the reports are late. My contact with HR throughout my tenure has been met with, "well, we know how s/he is," "do what you can and when you need to vent, just call, I understand," "we've all worked with her/him and they are a bit special," "don't worry we got your back." While many of the directors in our organization worked up through the ranks, none were trained on how to manage people and when I asked HR what type of training was provided for directors (not trying to single out my director), I was told "none really, but if I came across some that I feel would be helpful, let them (HR) know." Really, not only am I to play catch, run passes and shoot nothing but net, I also need to look for training for the directors, mine in particular! Of course I did not take that challange on, nor did I write my PIP and each write up started with, 'I have been directed to write the following per a conversation with (my director), and was instructed to write what was dictated to me by (my director.' Since I was writting it, I took creative license to add my portion of the conversation and the steps I took to recitify the issue. I like what Vanda said and think that is the way to go, although we as employees are constantly reminded if we are fired there is no unemployment, this is a non-profit organization that does not take state funding, therefore not required to pay into unemployment.
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