So sorry about this Donna.
It just isn't fair. We really need to start a PetTalkVille!!! Where noone would get bad reviews!!!
I have to agree with SallyAnne, we have a secretary at work that came from working from a bank to working in a hospital with no medical training and it shows. She doesn't pronounce words right or spell them right nor does she care. She screws up and farts around and her response is "OH WELL, so write me up" She flat out told me over a year ago to not call attention to her mistakes, fix them myself, and keep my trap shut, b/c then she would start calling attention to my mistakes. Noone says anything to her b/c she is a nice person other than that.
But I have a hard time dealing with her stupidity.
I also got blindsided with a review when I was hired in my current job, 5 years ago. I had been there a year, and had a review and they basically told me if I didn't shape up, I was going to get fired, this coming from a place that doesn't fire people but once in awhile. I cried myself to sleep for days. I had to retrain with another person, work with another person and report to my supervisor. Made to look like a fool alot of times, but I stuck it out. Noone ever followed up with it, I have gotten good reviews ever since then, and my boss herself has told me she was glad that she gave me another chance, she knew there was something about me that she wanted to keep. She said that she knew that even tho I needed help, you couldn't have asked for a nicer person, employee. I show up, work my a$$ off while I am there, rarely call in sick (used 10 hours of sick time in 5 years), come in when I am needed. Mistakes yes, I make them, perfect, heaven knows, I am not, but glad I stuck it out. Most of the time!!! But I realize that there isn't really a perfect place to work, and there are troublemakers everywhere. What I did learn, is to buckle down and be more careful and take pride in what I do. Most of the time I do enjoy it, then there are times I don't.
And it never fails, every year around the same time, I get a sinking feeling in my stomach like it is going to happen again.
Course it didn't help that a year later, a vindicitive secretary came up to me on her last day before retirement saying that she overheard my boss and her boss talking about letting me go. I went into hysterics. I had done everything I had been asked, and had JUST been offered full time 2nd shift. It didn't make sense, but nonetheless I freaked out. A coworker went to my supervisor's boss and asked what was up and he was flabbergasted. Told her to tell me it was completely false, I had nothing to worry about, and was glad that the secretary wouldn't be back. When my supervisor got wind of it, she was livid.
Not really sure why I am dragging this out, guess it doesn't really have a point.
Donna, Good luck in the new job search and Don't forget you can move to OHIO!
hugs to you!