I was offered a lead analyst job at a place I worked at for a dozen years but had left a year earlier.
Week 1 boss is friendly and positive. I’m expected to hit the ground running because of my years of service. Okey dokey.
One week later they announce the department is reorganized. I’m no longer the lead, now just one of 9.
Ice storm hits and our power is out for 30 hours, I call my boss and take unpaid PTO for 1 day.
Weekly Teams meetings with video I notice that I other people have their cats with them. Former departments also encouraged this. So I let my cat in for a meeting.
Next day I get a PIP worded email saying I was inactive a few times on Teams, my cat was distracting and it was unprofessional, and that I should have made other arrangements for the ice storm power outage.
Tomorrow I have a meeting with my boss and I want, so badly, to ask why the younger staff members can have their cats at the meetings, go inactive, and take hours out of every day to pick up their kids and such. The favoritism is so blatant.
Any ideas how to approach this? I want to let her have it, of course in a professional way.