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Welcome to America, the land of at-will employment.
Also seemed like you were welcoming people into the land of at-will.
Not going to lie, it feels a little like you’re probably leaving out some details here to try to get sympathy. (If not, and you genuinely have no idea what you did wrong, and you tried really hard, then shame on the employer….. but you still can’t sue them)
OP, I was once laid off from a job where I was producing bookworthy work on the good assignments, but struggling with some less creative long copy assignments.
They’re different skillsets. The work that draws us to advertising is mentally stimulating and requires creativity. The work it sounds like we’ve both struggled with requires attention to detail.
See if you can download Grammarly Premium at your next job, or at least do so on your personal computer in the meantime. It’s a really helpful guardrail for me, someone with ADHD, to make sure I’m buttoned up with the less important projects so the focus remains on how I do on the more exciting ones.
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also check with HR - the first 90 days are sometimes considered probationary anyway.
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in this case, it is protecting the company.
OP, dude.. just NO. 2 months? You’re weren’t performing, straight up. Your work clearly illustrated very early on you didn’t have the skillset and it wasn’t worth teaching you what you missed in school. They saw it. You gotta step up your game or the next place that hires you will fish you out early too. Wrongful termination? Please. Welcome to the real world, kid.
(PS mentor ship is to help people with solid base skills hone in. Not completely teach somebody how to do a job that they were hired to do in the first place.)
Yeah, having above the line work produced clearly demonstrates I was doing a horrendous job across the board.
You have no chance at a wrongful termination suit. Sounds like they could claim there were performance issues. They can fire you on day 1 for that.
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Happened to me. Was placed on a performance improvement plan 3 months into my first ever job with little mentorship and was given only two weeks to “improve”. Complete BS. It was during covid too and I heard talks of our client scaling back the budget. So honestly it was a layoff. In my case may have been gender too considering I was the only male on a all female team. (10 females), ACD started after me and never liked me from day 1 stirring the pot. Probably wanted a mid level role. No lawyer will really take your case unless you’re a protected class and was discrimination for either race, gender, disability or age. Best is to take severance and move on.
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Let it go. If you pursue this matter, which most likely is trivial, you’ll be blackballed from the industry. It’s a lot smaller than you think and people talk. Let it go, move on. It’s happened to me too and I learned and kept it moving. It sucks, I get it, but you pursuing it will only make things worse for a very very minimal reward.
No, it’s at-will employment. Wrongful termination is applicable under very specific circumstances. Pretty much only racism and sexism.
Ageism also, although it seems like the ad industry is pretty good at getting away with that.
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OP: Is this your post too? Sounds like there were some early warning signs. So now you know to look out for those kinds of things and never get too comfortable.
Also this place sounds small as you’re dealing directly with the CCO. So maybe they really don’t have the extra resources and needed you to hit the ground running.
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Seemed fine at first then said they wanted to help me succeed by any means then fired me 2 weeks later for not meeting their quote on quote work standards.
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Just move on. Unless you were harassed or discriminated against, it’s not worth it.
Do you have your email correspondence or any handwritten notes that the leadership team or individual members gave you that made it super clear what was expected of you and shows how exactly you fee short? Collect all that stuff if you can and write a detailed rebuttal. Protected class member or not, you need to play hardball at an equal level with people like this in order to make off with the best possible severance package you possibly can. And once they do cut you a check, be mindful of all the red flags you ignored during the interview phase before your first day and store them in your memory banks forever.
I agree with the advice to move on. But also, find a lesson in what happened and learn from it. If you were doing good work and showing real promise, I can guarantee that they would have wanted you there. This is a selfish business. All decisions are based on whether you make other people’s jobs easier. Juniors are hired to produce value, not to be students. If you don’t know how to do something well, it’s on you to get stronger. That will be true every day of your career.
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Juniors should also be mentored. You don’t enter the industry never having worked in it knowing how to operate in it. Training takes time.
No. Most gigs have a 3-month probation period in the beginning as a means to figure out if it’s a good fit.
Is it ethical, kind or normal? No. Is it legal? Yes. It’s a bummer. Try to dust yourself off, figure out what they said that might be true and move on.
I interned at an agency that gave me great feedback at the end of the review and then, when I graduated and applied for a job, they said I wasn’t a talent or cultural fit for the agency. (It was the early 2000’s) I was crushed and definitely beat myself up for awhile. Flash forward, and it all turned out fine.
Depends. If you didn’t do the work, didn’t show up, were a complete asshole, etc it’s not wrong for them to dismiss you.
If you did everything expected of you and didn’t shit on someone’s desk, and they didn’t have a round of layoffs due to a client loss or something, then...maybe.