Does anyone know if there’s a common procedure? Does anyone have personal experience or anecdotes from others?
Maybe I’m overthinking this but I’m worried about getting let go due to an odd meeting invite scheduled for tomorrow.
The subject is just “1on1” and there’s no description (then again, at my company most invites don’t have descriptions which I find very annoying because it’s not the first time I’m having a minor freakout because of that.)
I was unable to attend the scheduled meeting, so I rescheduled and selected an available open meeting space. Most meeting spaces are open at my office. My boss accepted but then rescheduled for a time where we could use an enclosed space. The reason given in a direct chat message was to use the enclosed space for talking about “privacy issues.” The message is a quite broken machine translation and I think he meant to convey “private/sensitive matters” rather than “privacy issues.” The thing is we use the open meeting spaces to discuss very confidential information all the time, so that stood out to me.
If I were about to be let go, would this go down differently according to some regulation or common procedure? Can companies in Japan fire people arbitrarily? I haven’t missed any deadlines or been unable to finish any tasks or been insubordinate or something. Can I protect myself somehow? I've been with the company for a year minus a few days. I have a permanent position, btw (not a contractor.)
EDIT: Wasn't fired. Relatively new boss, so he wanted us to introduce ourselves more in a meeting, asked me to do some things to help the other engineers, and asked me what I want to achieve at the company.
by dendaera