I work in a role where I have counterparts in various sites across the UK. For the past few years, our senior manager has been based in Manchester, and there has very much been a Manchester-centric culture in the department (for context, I am nowhere near this area).
We recently had the opportunity to apply for a new, but related role, which sounded really exciting. I applied, and was successful - yay! The senior manager for the new role is also based in Manchester; the colleagues are spread throughout sites across the UK as before.
The new role doesn't come into being for three months (in the meantime, we carry on as we are). However, I have just found out that a team will be piloting the new role a month early, having an opportunity to shape the role, iron out initial difficulties etc. Guess who will be doing this - yes, the team in Manchester .
I am really disappointed, as I feel it heralds yet another era of other sites being the poor relations to the Manchester royalty - also it seems likely to result in the new role being done 'The Manchester Way' rather than having input from the other sites. We will be playing catch-up from the outset.
I strongly want to say something - as positively as possible (that I really want to be part of the pilot and feel I would have lots to offer, rather than alluding to the Manchester royalty problem) however, I don't know my new manager and I don't want my first appearance on his radar to be as a nuisance. It might sound as though I am telling him how to do his job. It am fairly sure the location of the pilot is a done-deal so it would probably be pointless exercise anyway.
I do feel a bit dampened and have a sense of deja vu which is demotivating.
How do I overcome this? Should I say something, or would this be a really bad idea?
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Should I keep my head down, or say something?
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Keenbutnowdisappointed · 19/06/2018 17:47
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