Timeline for I received a written warning for my performance, how can I save my job?
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| Apr 4, 2014 at 2:17 | comment | added | IDrinkandIKnowThings | @SteveJessop - Yes but unless you have proof readily available there is nothing you can do. You can ask for an investigation but once it accusation is out there it never goes away. the only hope is that the same person makes other false allegations against other people in the future that can be refuted. | |
| Apr 3, 2014 at 23:48 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | @Chad: depends on the details of course. For an extreme example if your boss goes to HR accusing you of stealing a laptop, and you have in point of fact not stolen the laptop, then it would be worth taking it up with HR rather than accepting the accusation. A person with a made-up accusation always gets to make it first, there's no way to anticipate it and you're always playing catch-up. But the fact that many claims are being made at once, and some of them are true, does of course make it very difficult to separate out the false ones unless they are extreme. | |
| Apr 3, 2014 at 20:47 | history | edited | thursdaysgeek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 3, 2014 at 20:41 | comment | added | DJClayworth | Regarading "personal issues outside of work that I am not comfortable disclosing to any of my co-workers, including my boss". If these issues might force you to be absent during work hours, you absolutely need to share this fact with either your boss or HR right now, before it happens, whether or not you are comfortable. Failing to do so will count against you. Yo are probably also going to need to provide evidence to support the case. If you had done so earlier this might not have been a problem. | |
| Apr 3, 2014 at 20:39 | history | edited | thursdaysgeek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 3, 2014 at 20:22 | comment | added | IDrinkandIKnowThings | then it could be worth taking that up with HR - Its too late for that. In business you can not file a complaint second, it just looks like sour grapes even if the complaint totally false unless you have irrefutable proof that the original complaint is completely false and the manager knows it. Even then your career is going to suffer because managers do not like it when you make one of their own look like a fool. | |
| Apr 3, 2014 at 19:36 | comment | added | BeyondSora | @dalbaeb, HLGEM said "stop thinking about it as micromanagement". It "technically" is, but it doesn't matter in this case. The only thing matters is that you've lost your boss's trust. The only action you can do (other than quitting) is to regain that trust. And the only way to regain that trust, from what you've told us, is to do as your boss says and to do it well. | |
| Apr 3, 2014 at 19:31 | comment | added | montrealist | @HLGEM Very true. At the same time, practical implications arising out of my situation still qualify as micromanagement, so I believe I'm correctly applying the term here. | |
| Apr 3, 2014 at 18:18 | comment | added | HLGEM | And stop thinking of it as micromanagement. You lost your boss's trust and that is how employees who do that are supposed to be treated. You have proven to him that you can't be allowed to work independently. If you had a personal issue affecting your ability to work or your work hours, you should have brought it up to him immediately. If people don't know that there is some reason to make allowances, then they won't as you found out. It is too late now for this job, but remember that for the future. | |
| Apr 3, 2014 at 18:12 | history | answered | thursdaysgeek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |