Hello All!
I won't be posting much (at least not until the evening) because I was put on probation at work.
This is long, so feel free to skip over it.
A couple of months ago, they asked that I start balancing settlement accounts (I work at a bank). I have never worked with anything involved with that before, but I said sure. So, a coworker started training me. I had a ton to learn and it was taking me a while (especially since every day there was something different). She said not to worry, because when she first started doing it, it would take her all day (plus, she had background with the accounts).
Anyway, it would take me all day (some days) to balance everything. I would ask her questions and she would answer them or fix stuff herself. So, I did these for almost a month when she said that she would take the workload back. She claimed that she liked doing it and it would just be easier to train on of the other girls (who had the same knowledge background as she) as a backup.
That happened on June 11. Well, today I get called into my bosses office and he tells me that I am now on a 90 day probation. He said it was because some things were messed up while I was doing the settlement accounts and my coworker had to fix those. He also said that I didn't ask questions when I should have or if I did ask questions, it wasn't to the right person. I asked who I was suppose to ask, because I asked my coworker and even him. He said that was who I was suppose to ask and then didn't say anything further.
The HR director was there as well and she wouldn't really answer anything either. All they said was that I messed up and was on probation. If I do anything wrong, I will be terminated. I was also stripped of being allowed to do fun things in my spare time (such as internet).
Apparently, the mistakes that were made happened in May, but were fixed by my coworker (because I asked her to help). I stopped doing this stuff on June 11. No one said anything during this whole time until today. I have been here a little over 2 years and have never done anything wrong.
I am just so mad and upset. I had to sign my write up and put my side on it, but it doesn't matter.
Mike thinks I should look for another job, but I do like (for the most part) where I work. Still, I don't think this situation was handled well at all.