What??? Wait... didn’t you say earlier that you had just submitted your exemption? How can it not be related?
Wellll let me explain now that I’m awake and sober - since I had a very nice Japanese whiskey to celebrate my separation last night - the company I was at has been trying to design a New Product since before I joined exactly 2 years ago this month.
The big wigs (VPs - I was a director) decided they’d had enough and called for a week long workshop to create a detailed plan so that they could then micromanage the hell out of everyone (mind you we have more then just the 1 project and the company has over 100 open positions oh and we had also done the exact same exercise in Oct 2020).
My functional lead for the program was conducting an audit with a newer employee to help train them so I drove in Monday night (got a flat on the way and had to drive 45 on the donut on the interstate for over 2 hours so week was already going grand) went in to the Tuesday session to represent my function and because we’ve been getting a lot of automotive types who don’t understand the regulations around med device to frankly keep them honest and not break the law.
All the functions are in there - except the design group.....now mind you we still don’t have a complete design .... and they’ve had 3 years to create one.....so why isn’t the design group there....I WAS LIVID....at the first break I asked the Director of PMO to talk in her office.....and I lit her up...yes I was at fault I raised my voice and I used a LOT of bad words....to get my point across that the failure to have the design group in there meant that we weren’t fixing anything and just wasting the other functions time. I spoke for less then a minute...she said “I feel uncomfortable” and I immediately turned and left.
Told my boss what happened. He talked with her in the afternoon and explained what was needed in regards to design and that it was unacceptable. He brought me back in the afternoon...told me what they talked about and said ‘now the hard part’....I interrupted and said ‘you want me to apologize to her’. He said yes, I said it’d be a cold day in hell before I crawled on my knees and apologized to that xxxxx.
So yes I know I put him into a terrible position (I already apologized to him for putting him into a impossible position by private text) and they felt they didn’t have any other way out then to let me go...when they told me yesterday I had already packed up my office as I fully expected it....from entering his office (him and an HR rep) to out the door was less then 5 minutes I think.
It was a toxic place....but my team was great...and I got texts all last night crying and telling me how great I was as a boss, etc
I’ll find something else - it’ll be ok - not my first rodeo - doubt it will be my last.
But I will say that between this episode, some other things going on there, making a bunch of money on trump stock a few weeks ago, the shot mandate coming down, and frankly just a feeling that God was telling me it was time...I knew I’d be gone no later then early December.