Just hypothetically curious
If someone were to evaluate your performance as substandard, would you just 'walk away' amiably and say, "Well the system's working"...
or would you consider legal counsel?
I don’t “think,” I know that I would evaluate the criticism to see whether or not the criticizer does or does not have a point. If he does have a point, I would see if there was anything I could do to improve my abilities … and if I concluded that he does NOT have a point, I would certainly ask him/her to be a bit more specific as to why he/she believes my performance is substandard and find out what might be the “real” reason behind the criticism. I’d like to think that legal counsel might be a very last resort. For example … let’s say my performance was NOT substandard, and it was provable, but they wanted me fired anyway. So I go get legal counsel and bring a law suit. The suit is settled by allowing me to stay employed. Do you think that would be a good move on my part or not? I would think not. For a whole laundry list of reasons. The only way legal counsel might be considered worthwhile is if I could get a settlement that would pay me enough money to live on (hopefully live well on) until I found another job. In my experience, most relatively new hired persons are not going to be given such an opportunity.