Impossible tasks to force senior out of job?

Catnippy wrote: ↑ I'm over 50 and have been working for the same company for 15 years. My work responsibilities have always been reasonable, even if some are outside skills set (IT degree and MBA) and I've received good performance appraisals over the years. Now I've been placed into a urgent project which is in total chaos, no one wants to be on it, one person went on stress leave after a few months. Every morning my manager and director yell at me for detailed plans and deliverables from the team members. It's been 3 weeks now, the participants are all frustrated, I'm pointed to documents dated 2016, no one will give me consistent info and people smile knowingly when they hear I was delegated at the tail end to "fix things up". Wondering if this is a company ploy to suddenly point out my weaknesses (I admitted that I don't have the specialist skills for this) so they don't have to give me a bonus, retirement benefits and trying to force me out because of my age.

Anyone encounter this? What I hate most is that I get told to hide facts, not attend meetings but not tell the chair, and my manager points his hand at my face like 1.5 feet away in front of everyone in our meetings. I worked late and all last weekend to finish a document, and got shouted out again on Monday and the rest of the week. So much so, that I haven't logged into work this weekend at all because I expect demanding emails which are really stressing me out. I've made initial contact with one employment lawyer and have another's number in my cell.

Has anyone encountered this before, and anyone give me some advice? Don't want them to beat me out of retirement benefits that I've been accumulating for so long.

Catnippy wrote: ↑ Wow what kind of animal are you to judge me like that? I used to work 90 hour weeks with no extra pay for a reasonable employer and have taken on more than challenging projects - 5 people on this project have told their manager they want out, so I'm not the only one. Are you 22 years old and not able to find a job?

You're the one who posted
"I worked at Amazon (Canada) for about 3 months in a finance capacity and quit - they really put you through the grinder in that company. You're basically 'on call' 24/7 firefighting issues all day, everyday...you can't even forget or drop your work for a day without people chastising you. Not worth it."

I guess your work ethic isn't up to scratch and you're a lazy slob who can't handle a few problems 'cos you can't even survive 3 months!

winner2000 wrote: ↑ Yeah, except instead of whining about my job I went and found another one - and didn't blame it on my age or lack of skills like you. Why don't you go do the same? Oh that's right, a lazy "senior" like you is probably pretty unemployable...

Catnippy wrote: ↑ Wow what kind of animal are you to judge me like that? I used to work 90 hour weeks with no extra pay for a reasonable employer and have taken on more than challenging projects - 5 people on this project have told their manager they want out, so I'm not the only one. Are you 22 years old and not able to find a job?

You're the one who posted
"I worked at Amazon (Canada) for about 3 months in a finance capacity and quit - they really put you through the grinder in that company. You're basically 'on call' 24/7 firefighting issues all day, everyday...you can't even forget or drop your work for a day without people chastising you. Not worth it."

I guess your work ethic isn't up to scratch and you're a lazy slob who can't handle a few problems 'cos you can't even survive 3 months!

winner2000 wrote: ↑ Yeah, except instead of whining about my job I went and found another one - and didn't blame it on my age or lack of skills like you. Why don't you go do the same? Oh that's right, a lazy "senior" like you is probably pretty unemployable...

vkizzle wrote: ↑ You're one of those guys huh?
I bet you're the least liked amongst your peers.

Catnippy wrote: ↑ I'm over 50 and have been working for the same company for 15 years. My work responsibilities have always been reasonable, even if some are outside skills set (IT degree and MBA) and I've received good performance appraisals over the years. Now I've been placed into a urgent project which is in total chaos, no one wants to be on it, one person went on stress leave after a few months. Every morning my manager and director yell at me for detailed plans and deliverables from the team members. It's been 3 weeks now, the participants are all frustrated, I'm pointed to documents dated 2016, no one will give me consistent info and people smile knowingly when they hear I was delegated at the tail end to "fix things up". Wondering if this is a company ploy to suddenly point out my weaknesses (I admitted that I don't have the specialist skills for this) so they don't have to give me a bonus, retirement benefits and trying to force me out because of my age.

Anyone encounter this? What I hate most is that I get told to hide facts, not attend meetings but not tell the chair, and my manager points his hand at my face like 1.5 feet away in front of everyone in our meetings. I worked late and all last weekend to finish a document, and got shouted out again on Monday and the rest of the week. So much so, that I haven't logged into work this weekend at all because I expect demanding emails which are really stressing me out. I've made initial contact with one employment lawyer and have another's number in my cell.

Has anyone encountered this before, and anyone give me some advice? Don't want them to beat me out of retirement benefits that I've been accumulating for so long.

winner2000 wrote: ↑ Yep, I'm definitely one of "those guys" who doesn't whine on the internet about how my job is hard or how I'm being targeted because of my "age" and instead goes out and does something about it. Guilty as charged.

Catnippy wrote: ↑ Yes, I do have a history of saving dysfunctional teams, but not projects on which I have the wrong skills. No, actually the executives know something is wrong, but no one will tell them about the chaos. I went way deep in my due diligence to uncover what is wrong, but there's no time to rectify everything because morale is at an all time low. I did create a strategy for going forward which was accepted, but the deadline is too tight to rally the team with a detailed delivery plan so we'll focus on critical mandatory tasks to completion while surfacing the risks. Found out end dates were given without consideration of vacation dates, contractor terminations, and role backup/skills transfer. Anyway, I now believe that they'll get the same person who went on stress leave to continue leading the project and I'll focus on injecting efficiencies to meet the commitments.

dracolnyte wrote: ↑ my senior director, who was around 55, was forced to retire. they didnt try to put him in some complicated project to can him but instead they did the opposite. one by one they started taking projects away from him

blexann wrote: ↑ No such thing as a forced retirement. He as probably packaged out.