Longtime lurker and empathizer, first-time poster here. I was just fired from my position and told that I can transfer to another team “if I want.”
Keeping it vague but I was hired by one team to do coding in a certain language for certain projects. The first three months of being here was very good for me and I was able to join in on projects for which I was hired and excel in them. Then the work there dried up and I was left with no projects to do sitting idly for weeks at a time. The manager began putting me on projects way out of my comfort zone in terms of programming language and subject matter with the promise that my colleagues would help train me, but truth be told no one had time or interest. Meanwhile my colleagues were making comments about how little I was working and how it wasn't my fault, but truth be told I didn't really know what to do with that. I was losing motivation and interest, so I began to look elsewhere.
Another team in my company required the exact skillset that I wanted to use so with my manager's permission I began doing some work with them. The manager even introduced me to the managers of those teams so they could contact me directly about certain types of work. I was doing really well and no longer sitting idlely, and then my maneger informs me that I have been fired from my position.
I am told that I am just fired from the team and I am more than welcome to pursue opportunities with the other team but I was expecting to have a smoother time. I still have two weeks to work at this company and I'm in talks with the other team about a full-time position with them but everything is really uncertain and will be until my last week here. Word is spreading around the office which I am still coming to every day. The general word is that my colleagues think I was mismanaged and that I didn't deserve this, but hearing it is still pretty overwhelming and makes me want to retreat. My motivation for the last couple of projects has tanked and I've just been depressed the last couple of days. This is just a rant. Has anyone else experienced this?