Manufacturing company's product manager decides to quit after getting a bad review over vague expectations from his manager: ’This is my last straw tho and I will not tolerate this’

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• I (33M) am a Product Manager at an engineering/manufacturing company. I was given a “below expectations” review. I don’t agree with it at all. AITH for deciding from this point on, I need to part ways with the company?

  
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• Over the year they actually did the work they learned the systems they connected the dots between pricing sales manufacturing and customer feedback and other departments consistently signal that they are happy with how things are going. Then comes the review and the manager fishes for microscopic flaws just to justify a “below expectations” rating that does not match any of the real‑world outcomes.  

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• The revenue numbers are above target but get downgraded. A matrix and evaluation process the manager once said was useful and effective gets marked below because one department did not hear about it yet as if the calendar suddenly stopped being a factor. A training that was supposed to be intermediate gets attacked for not also being beginner when the manager never told anyone that was the plan. The pattern is not about competence it is about control. The manager forgets things misremembers emails and then treats everyone else’s confusion as proof of incompetence instead of bad communication.  

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• The company then slaps on the investor hat. They sign the person up for a multi‑day boot camp worth serious money and say they want to help. It reads less like support and more like a last‑minute saline drip on a relationship that is already hospice. The employee is not refusing to grow they are refusing to keep running a maze where the walls move every time they get close to the cheese.

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• Of course they are not wrong for deciding this is it. They are just the person who finally realized that some offices are better traded than tolerated.

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