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What’s the point of improving my performance if you’ll write me up anyways?

(Could seriously use some encouragement/advice, because I'm 100% done.) Monday, I get pulled into a meeting because I was forgetting to log myself on/off our department phone line. Okay, thanks for the heads up, I'll go ahead and fix that. Spent the last few days keeping an eye on the phone line, making sure I took every call I could, took such an initiative that my manager thanked me for the hard work. Today I get written up for it. You know, the thing that I wasn't aware of and immediately fixed. The entire time she's going on about being “on your side” and “really do see an improvement on your work”. And all I can think is, what's the point? If there's nothing I can do to change the final outcome, why am I even trying? At this point I think I'll just have to suck it up for…


(Could seriously use some encouragement/advice, because I'm 100% done.)

Monday, I get pulled into a meeting because I was forgetting to log myself on/off our department phone line. Okay, thanks for the heads up, I'll go ahead and fix that.

Spent the last few days keeping an eye on the phone line, making sure I took every call I could, took such an initiative that my manager thanked me for the hard work.

Today I get written up for it. You know, the thing that I wasn't aware of and immediately fixed. The entire time she's going on about being “on your side” and “really do see an improvement on your work”. And all I can think is, what's the point? If there's nothing I can do to change the final outcome, why am I even trying?

At this point I think I'll just have to suck it up for the next few months and try to be on my best behavior since I have a bit PTO request in October. But I'm done trying to go above and beyond here.

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