Company put me on PIP & did not give me any documentation

1 year ago

After working with this company for 19 long years, I was put through hell & then in pip on the pretext of performance but the HR only read it out to me & did not provide any documentation. And i was forced to resign as the pip was unsuccessful according to them. But i faced certain health issues which had severely affected my last 2 weeks performance & for which i had proofs but neither the manager nor even HR was even ready to listen to my genuine reasons. On the contrary, they questioned me as how come all this is coming up now only. And this after putting in 19 years of work for this thankless company. I had no behavioral issues, was very sincere & dedicated towards my job with no untoward absenteeism & a very disciplined employee. But to my misfortune I got only toxic bosses to work with & the last one took the straw. He was not only the worst person for me to work with as he was very dishonest & had unethical ways of working since he was looking only at targets & not bothered even if it was achieved by unethical means. And he never treated me as a part of his team. He was always sidelining & ignoring me right from the time I was put in his team from last May. He would not involve me during his team outings nor in any team activities. But when it comes to insulting, he would scream at me in front of the whole team. This had happened several times. He made my life hell. He had completely stopped talking to me or even helping me in anything & told me infront of others that he even stopped talking to me. When i was put in PIP & called for a meeting with HR, the HR instead pf first listening to me called all the managers which i believe was to intimidate me & when i started pointing out about my toxic boss's misbehavior, she asked me to wait & called him in front of me & then asked me to say. Though i said certain things i left out certain other things out of stress due to this actions on her part. Though they claimed they will look into it, I dont even think they even addressed it. Besides the senior manager who my manager had deliberately called was already in full support of my boss. So she told him not to tell me anything as hereafter she will directly handle my case. And she assigned an sme who was to be my support the entire time. Soon i got to know this was all just a hogwash & they had already decided to terminate me. This PIP was just a route to my exit & my performance was only used as an excuse. My quality was at 100% though but that was nowhere considered. And that sme had helped me properly only for 8-10 days after which he would get irate. So i stopped taking help from him. Meanwhile my boss continued behaving the same way he was before though HR claimed to have taken severe action against him though what i still dont know as i never noticed any change in his behavior like making threatening remarks in general or making snide remarks at me by indirectly yelling at others. And this rotten management played the last dirty game in which they had sealed my fate. This was nobody gave me any feedback. So that the first week feedback was given towards the second weekend that too after i asked from the so called support sme. That support sme was not given to me for support but was meant for their support. The manager & he had clandestine meetings in which i was kept in dark about my own so called performance. Then i saw this trio ue my boss, sme & manager having the same secret meeting in the manager cabin & then my boss took nthe sme away & possibly told him to create negative feedback about me which already my 6th sense alerted me to. And just as i thought within the next 2 days i was brought before HR & was shocked to see the kind of negative report prepared by them which was to show me in a completely negative light. They only read it out to me but did not give me any documentation. And i bought the sme behavior to their notice but nothing was done about it. And throughout the HR took the management's side only & i was left to my devices. Inspite if telling about my medical condition, i only got inhuman inhuman treatment only. And was told to put down my papers. Also i asked the HR for severance pay but they said that was only for termination that too only in some cases. And we havent terminated you. So i told her but this is forced resignation so almost equal to termination. To which she denied saying but we are going to give u a clean exit. And i had to resign the same day ie 29th March. But they did not give me any documented proof of pip. What do i do now? Can i ask for the same now? Sorry for the long question but im extremely disturbed about the whole situation i had to face all alone & no one to turn to for any support or guidance