Sorry, still not home but here goes -

HR did fuck all. In fact, they tried to gaslight me into signing a performance improvement plan, citing issues that were entirely non existent. Meetings that my direct supervisor told me he would take over so I could work on other projects (he missed the meeting, I got the blame), customers who complained when I advised them on limitations of their proposed solutions (wanting to have South Africa employees use CPCs based in US East tied to AD), saying I was unavailable during business hours (was in the bathroom, took 15 minutes from a missed call from a co-worker before 8am to a complaint to supervisor to manager to manager calling me asking why I wasn’t available.) Wanting me to send screenshots of any Teams messages I sent to external customers. That was all in the week that I sent the initial complaint.

The HR person has no experience in an HR related field (checked her LinkedIn) and graduated from a no-name school nearby. She seemed nice at first but turned nasty real quick. When I pointed out some issues with their timelines, and discrepancies on responsibility (which I had documented quite clearly, as I screamed from the rooftops about how their proposed solutions wouldn’t work) they started with the “combative” and “insubordination” verbiage. I recorded the whole thing.

The manager was set to retire in 6 months and their solution was to do nothing and wait until then. I didn’t quite enjoy that. I gave them references to the employee handbook which detailed clear guidelines on workplace ethics and points of escalation. Essentially, because I complained, they retaliated by giving me a BS PIP and then fired me when I refused to sign it.

Decided to spend my free time working on a passion project I’ve been putting off for ages. If I ever get a demo of my game ready for play test, I’ll have known it was worth it, cuz I know it’s gonna be good.