Briefly, was at my last employer for 10 years in an education admin role. Each year a new batch of students came through and there was never any official space online for them to meet despite there being an official alumni page.
I set up a closed Facebook Group for students past and present in an unofficial capacity in my own time and of my own volition (I was never asked or instructed to do so) so that the students (who are friends too) would all be in one place for me and so we could all swap news, jobs and other things of interest. I let the Course Director become a member.
The Course Director has never once shown any interest in the set up, running or administration of the group apart from occasionally posting the odd job opening. The group is closed and has never purported of represented itself as any sort of official representation of the organisation but was a meeting place for friends connected by having studied or worked on that course.
Two days ago, out of the blue, I got a very bald request from the Course Director asking to be admin for the group. Like a fool and in good faith, I made him admin and I took on the role of moderator. I have had second thoughts and wrote to him asking to be reinstated as joint admin. he wrote back saying 'I think we would all agree this is a (organisation name) resource and it clearly set up for students that have passed through during my tenure'.
I wrote back and repeated to be reinstated as admin, that it is not an official resource, that it is my work and creation, never been anything in any official capacity and was set up in my own time, on my own initiative and as a way of having all my contacts in one place and where we could share personal progress and matters of interest.
I again repeated my request to be reinstated as joint admin but nothing back yet.
What can I do? I feel so angry that this organisation which treated me so badly that I had to take them to a tribunal (hence leaving) is still trying to control me and steal things from me and claim it is theirs. Please does anyone have advice. I have an agreed reference so have nothing to lose. This guy has never bothered with me in the time since I left despite me working extra long hours for him and catching the ball all the times he dropped it. he didn't even give the courtesy of asking how I was so is only on touch for his own ends.
What do I say and how do I handle it? Thanks
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Previous employer trying to steal my closed facebook group
poppaea · 18/10/2018 14:57
I'm a bit puzzled. It was a group for past and present students of an institution you no longer work for. Why do you need/want to be an admin of it? 
if any of the members are personal friends, you are presumably friends with them on Facebook anyway. It does on the face of it make sense for the group to be administered by someone who still works at the institution in question. Are you still a member, in which case you can still stay in touch with people and swap news etc which is what you say you want from it.
I'm struggling to see why you think he's stealing something from you, tbh
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