I have always enjoyed being a hermit in this page after having almost 10+ years of shitty jobs, shitty bosses, and shitty situations. For the past 2 years, things were finally turning up for me when my salary went up almost 3 times from what I have originally worked for, and it was for a dream company.
This allowed me to stop working at least 2 or 3 jobs (freelancing on top of my usual 9-5) just to be able to accommodate living in a HCL and try to support my elderly parents. Even with the pandemic, I felt really lucky, and was on cloud9. The fact that I didn’t have to work close to 80 hours a week felt like a huge relief and I did everything I could to stay on my dream job which I have been working for almost a year.
This, however, fell very short. I had my review recently which was given a surprisingly very low score (2/5). This hurt my self esteem and confidence in my career since I have always taken pride in it, and it made me question a lot of things. The review was also very vague, even when I asked in detail as to why the score was so low, things such as “asking too many questions” (never in my 10 years of career, even as a management position, did I ever think this would be a problem) came up to place which I thought was total BS.
Regardless I tried to shake it off, and decided that I would just try even harder than I did before. One week later, I got laid off, on the spot.
As soon as I was given the news, while trying to mentally process things for myself, I received messages from my coworkers asking if I was okay. I have not informed anybody since I was still in shock and this all happened within 10 minutes of receiving the news. Little did I realize that a chart was presented in a meeting that I was not a part of, that featured the “reorganization” of the company hierarchy especially since we went through major changes that included a new CEO and a major merger.
All the higher ups have received promotions and were also hired since they all knew each other from past major corporations, including my boss while some people have gotten laid off. What made me even angrier was the fact that after almost 1 month of when I first started working in the company, my boss out of the blue hired another person for the same job as I, which I did not think much of. The major difference, however, is that I actually had to go through 8 interviews, which took a process of almost 2 months, while my counterpart was hired through nepotistic practices. She, too, has received a promotion.
I have also learned that my boss and my counterpart were very close, to the point that they have attended each other’s weddings and occasionally take trips together. This made me realize that my termination had nothing to do with my performance. It was just planned from the beginning.
So here I am upset, but trying to cheer myself up, knowing that I will never work here again but I was a fool for leaving the reality of work. I just hope to find a better job than my past current one, and hopefully better people. Thank you for reading my story, I'm sorry for being so long with my vent.
Tldr: got hired, and laid off from a dream company within one year. Was laid off just because boss wanted her bff to take my job while they gave each other promotions.