The company I work for has a very heavy workload, fairly low pay compared to most of the industry, and is always short staffed. On my team of around 20, I am in the top 5 most tenured employees at less than a year with the company.
I was out of the office for about 2.5 weeks for medical leave. HR got all of the doctor’s reports and all of that good stuff. When I can back to work, it looked like they had found some help clearing some of my backlog. I as excited to not be so stressed. Well, I was wrong. All of my backlog was put into email folders that no one told me about. I had deadlines come up on projects with a hard due date when I was back. No one did anything on these. Even if we received documentation, it was filed away in the email folders. Suddenly I was scrambling like crazy!
The following week, I was written up. The points given on the write up were:
– After I had been out for a week, the manager checked my email and I had too many emails in there.
– I wasn’t working far enough ahead on my projects. I should have had everything done on those so no one would have to do anything on those.
– Clients were upset because I wasn’t getting back to them. I also got many of these phone calls when I got back “hey! I’ve been trying yo reach you for the last week but haven’t heard from anyone.”
I was asked to sign the write up and return it. When I mentioned adding my response to the items to the write up sheet, I was told that I cannot do that. I would need to send a separate email message with anything I had to say in response to the write up.
I was looking for a job before this happened but now I’m ramping up my search!