I’m looking for some HR advice. The other day I was in a meeting with my manager and the CEO, it was just supposed to be to discuss a matt leave but it turned into a project planning meeting out of no where and all of a sudden people were starting to set deadlines for a project I’m heading up. When I said the dead lines were no way possible the room went dead quiet. To try to help things along and problem solve I asked if I absolutely had no choice and had to do it in that time frame if I could get a commitment that no other projects would be put on my plate. To which the answer was a resounding “no”. No deadline was set and the project is being held back until they can figure out what to do... go external or hire a contract to assist me.
Fast forward 7 days I get hauled into HR, my manager and union rep is sitting in the room already. Turns out I’m being written up for Insubordination for asking “for a commitment that no other projects be given to me if I have to meet this deadline”. I got a verbal warning for that.
Secondly they give me another written warning for unsatisfactory work. They cited I prematurely launched a project, forgot to CC my boss on one unrelated email and made a type-o. We have no policies surrounding any of this, in the past I’ve been free to launch projects when I feel they are done and I’ve never had any issues. Nothing was done different this time. I completed it to her specification, although she disagrees… unfortunately not everything was in writing.
I’m planning to grieve both these through the union but before I do I wanted to get some opinions and advice. Am I really in the wrong here? Our union is usually pretty lax about things but this really seemed to rub them the wrong way and they are wanting to fight it, should i? If I fight it I feel I’ll be marked and my life there will be made very difficult, if this is the case is there anything I can do about it?
Thanks,
Fast forward 7 days I get hauled into HR, my manager and union rep is sitting in the room already. Turns out I’m being written up for Insubordination for asking “for a commitment that no other projects be given to me if I have to meet this deadline”. I got a verbal warning for that.
Secondly they give me another written warning for unsatisfactory work. They cited I prematurely launched a project, forgot to CC my boss on one unrelated email and made a type-o. We have no policies surrounding any of this, in the past I’ve been free to launch projects when I feel they are done and I’ve never had any issues. Nothing was done different this time. I completed it to her specification, although she disagrees… unfortunately not everything was in writing.
I’m planning to grieve both these through the union but before I do I wanted to get some opinions and advice. Am I really in the wrong here? Our union is usually pretty lax about things but this really seemed to rub them the wrong way and they are wanting to fight it, should i? If I fight it I feel I’ll be marked and my life there will be made very difficult, if this is the case is there anything I can do about it?
Thanks,