I’ve worked with my company for 1 and a half years now. I initially did one type of job under a head of department (team A) and was headhunted by the manager of a team which is a sub division under the original team (team AB). I have studied for many years to get to where I am and am qualified in my area of law which I was doing under team A. The work on the new team is quite niche but a lot of the job is administrative. My appraisal was positive and I was given good feedback about my files.
I decided to tell my head of department that working in the team AB isn’t for me and I’d like to go back to team A). My job in team A was filled a few months back and it was assumed that I’d be working for team AB but doing a small amount of work for team A. Most of the work in team A was delegated elsewhere so that I could focus on team ABs workload. I didn’t really have a say in the matter as I was asked when someone left team AB. The manager and a few of the team work fully remotely and training has been primarily by the managers assistant emailing what is required. I have feedback to the managers assistant that I learn better being shown how to do things rather than read a long email that doesn’t make sense. I suggested we have regular zoom meetings and screen share. This has only happened once and was a good way of learning. The managers assistant continues to send long emails about what needs to be done. bearing in mind I’ve not done their type of work before.
when I started on team AB I was given 36 cases to deal with and then started getting an influx of about 100 emails a day. In addition I was regularly going out for meetings/networking etc so that reduced my time in the office. I wanted a bit of time to look at the details of the file and make notes on what needed doing. Due to having to get on with it I didn’t have time. Managers assistant is quite highly strung and sends daily emails to say that documents haven’t been saved correctly on the system. They are fully paperless in the team and I was trying to adjust my mindset as I previously had paper files.
anyways, I called a meeting with HR and head of department and felt a bit bad that manager of team AB was out of the loop. I wanted to discuss going back to team A and doing the work I was comfortable (and qualified) to do. At the meeting, the HR lady gave me a performance improvement plan and issues were raised that I’d never heard about before under team AB. Issues such as punctuality (I drop my DS to school on a Friday and usually come in at 9:30 and work half an hour later to make up for it - this was agreed with the manager of team A sometime ago). I also work earlier than my start time several times a week to deal with the workload.
manager of team A also criticised my attention to detail (I filled in a form which had an incorrect bank account number on because there were many bank accounts and I included the details of the one I thought it was). This was the first time I did this form.
I told the HR deptartment today that I got a new job and handed my notice in. Manager of team AB is now saying that I would have probably resolved the issues brought to her attention in the PIP but that it was too late anyways as I was now leaving. AIBU to go with the new job.