>six months into job >new boss two months ago >get on really well personality wise >job has a six month probation period >11am this friday have my probation meeting >been told it's being extended by three months (by my boss) >been told HR will be there because he's new and doesn't know the ins and outs of the policies >boss knows I despise HR >meeting is supposedly to discuss progress moving forward etc. >asked if I'm in a bad place and need to get back on track, told no >asked if it's a PIP, told no >high up manager in the office I work also seems to think it's an extension and nothing more, but didn't say specifically
Am I being paranoid or am I about to be fired? I really don't feel good about this, the only thing that makes me think I'm not about to be fired is the fact that I'm having to travel to another city for this meeting (expensive for the company), and I think if they wanted to fire me they'd just do it over email or a conference call with HR in my city.
I have another job offer and I'm genuinely considering handing in my notice tomorrow or the day after to protect myself against being fired.
Take the other job offer. If they valued you, they wouldn’t extend your probationary period. Also, any job that has a “probationary” period is a shit job
Henry Nguyen
I don't really want the other job though, it's kind of just my fall back. It's the same type of job, but it's a smaller company and my boss kind of seems like a dickhead. The money is more though.
I started looking for other jobs a while ago after I started to panic about the probation coming up, I love where I work currently but I'm just worried about this is why I started looking elsewhere.
Xavier Gray
Why is it being extended exactly?
What's a PIP?
Jason Cook
OP was thought to be a Perverted Incel Jow Forumstard
Thomas Clark
>Performance Improvement Plan. An HR term that signify a managers corrective plan tomget a valuable employee who's having a significant increase in productivity. Usually a last ditch plan before firing someone.
I'm surprised they would extend this to someone on probation.
Andrew Moore
Fuck off oldmin
Nathan Wood
The fuckers in HR at the office I work at have some concerns about me turning up late (fuck them, I'm salaried, if I turn up five minutes late and work four hours after-hours unpaid and you do me for being late, go kill yourself) and my new boss, while he says he considers me an asset and is optimistic about me, says he is concerned about the speed with which I complete some tasks, but wont expand further until he's finished the assessment thing he has to do ahead of the review. I think maybe this is because he works in another office, I work somewhere he's never been yet and doesn't understand the working environment, and also he doesn't get that I have additional responsibilities he isn't fully aware of outside of his/my primary department. But equally, he's a very capable individual who has very high demands.
It's common practice to extend probation to let the person finish whatever project they're working on and then firing them. If you are working on a project that ends several weeks before your "probation" is over then you know what's gonna happen
Charles Allen
I do have an extended project that I could probably finish in the next four/five weeks, so this doesn't bode well.
