I am a localization project manager. I was hired 2.5 years ago into a job that really should have been a contract. It involved one large project that I completed a year ago. The idea was that I would be given other things to do, but the new director of our team neglected to put any money in the 2018 budget to fund any translation or localization projects. I was sent out into the greater organization to offer my services to other departments. I have done this for a year, and have come up with enough work to keep me busy for 30% of my day. Now, my employer is doing things like claiming my communications skills with other groups have not been good lately, but refusing to provide any examples or identify the groups involved. I am also told I am "not engaged" - I complain a lot. I don't complain, I ask for work to do! I am told that selling my services to other groups is a skill - the implication was clearly that I don;t have this skill. No kidding - I don't do inside sales. I think I have done a pretty good job at finding work anyway. It seems they are trying to get me to quit so that they don't have to justify a severance. Our branch of the company is not doing well financially. I have been told the old "You can always find another job". The director of our team is not flat out refusing to help identify any work for me, while criticizing my reaction to being in that situation. Did I mention my manager (who works for this director) sits ten feet behind my back, all day? I need help but it would be very difficult for me to just quit and have no severance of EI. What can I do? Is it possible to negotiate a way out?