Lost a loved job for incompetence. Your confidence recovery tips

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Just that. Worked hard to make it work but wasn’t up to it and consequently working relationship with line manager broken. My confidence is crushed.

How do people survive this. I know it’s not going to be a happy ending. If I couldn’t hold onto this job, then I’m pretty incompetent.

Informed today capability process triggered in month 6 of probationary period. Third role in company and successfully completed previous probationary periods. This is really bad luck and unfair but nothing will encourage me to work a minute more for this person. The grievances are historic and I believed I was resolving problems but today’s information came out of no where.

Do not hand in your notice before 2 years.

Another one adding 'do not leave before the two years are up'.

Thank you all again.

I read my contract. My probation period ends on 28 February. I don’t need to give notice. I can simply say I don’t want to continue in the role, and I don’t.

This gives me a month to organise my next step. There is no future for me in this organisation nor this role. So my leaving is inevitable.

However, I have now written a measured but frank response to my manager’s grievances about me. I have also asked for a response to a couple of grievances I am raising about my manager which should trigger an investigation into their activity and how this has impacted on my capacity to do my job properly.

At my probation review I will arrange for a solicitor to be present, if only to make them feel ill at ease.

Speak to the solicitor BEFORE any of this goes down.

How are you doing, OP?