Lets put on a manager hat for a minute (this might not sit well). Your manager could have been coasting along with your performance and not really giving good o

Lets put on a manager hat for a minute (this might not sit well). Your manager could have been coasting along with your performance and not really giving good or any feedback. Then you inform them of upcoming absence which may have triggered a couple paths: 1. Panic that you are going to be out, they start looking at your work output in a haphazard way to figure out how to cover while you’re out. This looks like random slack micro-management and inspecting what you’re doing when they haven’t been. 2. You’re not a top performer, maybe mediocre or bad and the manager has been avoiding delivering the feedback because they are lazy and coasting. I’m not saying you are or aren’t, please don’t take it as an attack. It could even be a perception by mgmt. Maybe this event triggered them to actually look at your output and they realized something doesn’t add up. Maybe clear the air about this to see. (pretend you’re an asshole VP now who thinks like this:) Are people actually delivering stuff and doing work or is work a side hustle amongst many other things people are doing like while taking yoga, sipping lattes, and staring at their phone. It could be others that have built up a bad perception in upper mgmts eye. What should you do: do the steps the IANAL commenter said (@relaunched). Send emails for everything to confirm project statuses, timelines, expectations, interactions, etc. This is what they do on their side for a PIP. Do not violate company policy (aka give them an easy fire) with things like sending company data (emails) to yourself if that is against policy. FMLA is legal protection around taking leave for having kids and other things, look into that. Open up a convo with HR about FMLA (email papertrail) even if you don’t think you’ll do it. It sucks you have crappy management. Also congrats!