Think I'm going to lose my job

[squeekywheel]

I had some negative feedback from my boss. Some of it was justified and some of it wasn't. She basically tore apart two years work in ten minutes. Utterly humiliated me and entirely passed the buck. She has been supervising said project and didn't raise anything the entire time.

I agreed to go away and fix it anyway. I also have some feedback to her boss on her behaviour.

I have now received something similar from someone else. Again I agreed to fix it. The whole thing was completely overblown. That person was straight on the phone to my boss.

Basically I get the feeling that she's trying to scapegoat me.

I can't afford to lose this job. Help!

A question to get more facts rather than a solution but I employ 200 ish people and some managers still ignore their training and employment best practice... so, just to clarify - during your quarterly or six month appraisals and also weekly progress sessions, was this discussed at all? The point. I am making is that it shouldn't be a surprise after two years - if it is, then the manager isn't really doing a great job of supporting you to help you achieve your objectives. The answer may help others to give you better advice.

Complete surprise.

I've been here ten years with no issues. She's newer.

I suspect she wants to discredit me so my negative feedback I gave goes away. She's very ambitious.

Involve the HR director and ask her to mediate. Your manager will probably run a mile but it will be a good learning experience for her

It's completely knocked my confidence- some of the mistakes I made on the second thing we're almost certainly due to that.

I've got her line manager involved. Not sure at what point I should involve the other union? HR just represent the organisation- notorious for it.

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Don't disagree but one way of representing the company is for Hr to avoid embarrassing cock ups enacted by a manager

If you are not already doing it, keep a diary.

The first I knew my new manager had a problem with me was in my first appraisal with them. It was such a shock as, like you, I had been there for many years.

Document everything and good luck.

I am.

How did it turn out, @MT2017?

Just been through a grievance against them and things are much better now (and we will see how they continue...)

It is shit when people treat each other like this as I have said on numerous threads - for you.

That's encouraging!

Just don't think I have the strength to fight this though. I have a toddler and health problems.

Firstly, speak to your union (are you in one?).

Secondly, make sure you really do keep a diary. Document everything. If you are unsure of anything, email the manager (ALWAYS do this in writing and if you have a conversation, email them to confirm you have understood correctly).

Thirdly, keep your head up. It's ironic that the stress creates more mistakes. My way of dealing with that was to stop doing the 'over and above' things that I had done - and been happy to - with my previous manager eg emails outside work time. This meant I just concentrated on what I was being asked to do and I did that to the letter.

With my previous manager I would do way more than I had to and on the flip side, if I made errors she would accept them and we would find a way forward together.

With the current one, she wants specificity and that is exactly what she is getting.

I do much more for other managers who don't keep bringing up minor mistakes from over a year ago... and my manager is more the fool for not realising it