My daughter has held this job for 3 years. It is an office position and it has bleh pay and benefits but she mostly enjoys it. Her company has had 3 layoffs in the last year, however, and there have been a lot of transitions and changes as a result. In this latest layoff, her supervisor got let go. Now she has another supervisor who is buddies with management and her supervisor knows nothing about the job itself.
All the new supervisor cares about is numbers. She (the supervisor) has now put my daughter on a performance review plan for the first time and they are setting her up to fire her. The company has always had a ridiculous expectation numbers-wise (no one on the team meets them – ever) but this has never been truly enforced.
I suspect that paying 3 months severance was too expensive, plus unemployment, plus healthcare. Firing people for “cause” gets the company off the hook.
I am so, so frustrated.