Hi All, I'm posting for my partner who doesn't reddit but could really use the support/perspective of this issue. I've got my personal opinions about this, mostly involving using all the sick and vacation days for the next 3 weeks then just quitting on the spot… but maybe those with less emotional attachment can think more logically about this…
“I've got 6+ years of banking experience. I've been in a specialized department at a large national bank for 15 months. I'm qualified for my job. From the start, I was under trained to do my daily tasks. Out of ~10 tasks, I was trained on 1. I asked for more help from my trainer, but they had moved onto helping other new employees and couldn't help. The manager was not helpful in figuring out how to handle the other tasks. He was new, too. My only resource was another employee who taught me as much as she could, but I still wasn't fully comfortable with a majority of the tasks. I'm not going to guess on how to do it, either, because I deal with peoples money. Eventually, the manager started writing me up for not doing enough tasks each day and having too many items on assignment board that were getting too old. I asked for feedback on how to improve and wasn't given concrete advice. I asked for more training. I suggested that tasks be delegated based on who is good at which specific tasks. The manager became pretty awful- making female coworkers cry by slamming his fists on his desk while yelling in one-on-one meetings, generally being insulting and rude. (Its hard to describe how cruel he was. He would approve my time off requests verbally, ask me to send a reminder email, and then not respond to the email. So I figured my vacation was approved. 2/3 times it was. Then, the day after thanksgiving, he texts me to ask why I am not at work. I was visiting my dying uncle, which he knew about. He wrote me up and reported me to HR as a no call, no show. I fought it with HR as best as I could. They offered a sympathetic ear and not much else. Last month, he “went on unplanned leave.” Rumors are that he is under investigation for numerous complaints. He's a monster.)
Anyway, even though that manager is gone, things did not get better. That managers manager claimed to be shocked and appalled by his behavior and wished we'd said something sooner…. Then she immediately moves me from my technical job that is on my career path, to essentially customer service. With ~1 week notice. Then today, I received an email about 2 hours before my shift letting me know my hours were shifted forward 1 hour, meaning I'd start an hour late and end an hour later. I am pretty sure they are just trying to get me to quit. I don't know why, I am in new york state, where they can fire me for no reason at any point.
To be honest, I'm beaten down and constantly anxious. There is no security in anything, my job title switches, my hours switch, and even before that, it seemed like they made up metrics to judge us by. To make matters worse, everyone else got a 2k bonus, and I did not.
I don't think anything is illegal, just really fucking shitty. I don't know what else to do other than just keep applying for other jobs. I have a good resume, but I haven't heard anything from other positions I've applied to. Any advice?”
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