OK have been in current post for just 4 months, but am leaving next week, a number of things have prompted my departure but I don't know just how honest to be at the exit interview which is with the DM as the department manager moved on at the start of the year.
So briefly I started in post v keen etc etc, and really thought that this post would see me to retirement,however it became apparent that I wasn't the first choice candidate as someone within the dept had been given the nod to apply. Former manager interviewed with next in command and through out the suggestion that was put forward for this particular person. Didn't go down well with DM as you can imagine as he had primed this person for interview. How do I know this - in my first few days/weeks DM kept making reference to the other person doing x,y& z of my role, initially I thought that perhaps it was a cross over thing etc, but eventually I asked him if he was trying to create a role for this person to which the answer was yes. He then went onto to explain how there was a need for more admin in the dept etc, but as far as I could see if there was a need there should be sufficient tasks to do without reducing my role. I did think about changing my name at one point because it always felt that this other person was always in the loop.But if I queried this was told that when the new boss starts there would be too much for me to do (despite the previous person managing fine!!) Then I was asked to put together a JD to pay this person for a made up job - to reward them for covering my role and another for 6 weeks, did as I was asked could understand the logic as the politics of the organisation etc. However when the jd was approved he decided it would be for 6 mths, (backdated not going forward)when I asked if that was correct etc as I understood it was for the interim period, and how could we justify paying someone for a job they hadn't done at a push we could agree to 6 weeks but not 6 months! I was balled out my the DM who asked who I was to question his authority etc, and spent the day V. upset. He did send an apology email to my home email address, but it seems that this is not the first time this has happened and one of the Senior team have suggested I speak to someone about it.Anyway after explaining that he actually told my that it was for 6 weeks etc, and that as this was public money it could be seen unfavourably he did change the term to 2 months but has continued to pursue the idea of giving x y& z of my role to this other person. So as you can gather I have not felt at all welcome or been able to settle but I have more than done my job and the general feedback about my work has been fab so I have mixed feelings about going but don't feel that I have any alternative. Where do I stand and how much/little can I say. I have been posted out an exit questionnaire by HR which I can return direct confidentially (that's the theory anyway) but is it all worth the hassle???
Apologies for the essay have tried to be brief!
Any advice appreciated xxx
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Exit interview......what to say?? (may be long - sorry)
mammasmadhouse · 19/08/2013 15:07
One job I left - where I had been for 6 years and had been consistently crapped on, bullied and made to feel like shit, I cried all the way through my exit interview (not very professional I know but I was so upset) named names, told them what had been happening (serious CP issues) and ...nothing was done. A colleague was then forced out in the same way - flagged all of her issues, named names, and...nothing. Closed ranks doesn't even begin to cover it - and these were vulnerable teenager issues 
My level of honesty would depend on who was providing me with a reference 
At my last place we asked for exit interviews but were told that our boss "didn't see the point" 
The reality was that he knew we had a long list of examples of his incompetence and he didn't want to be found out.
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