DH thinks this is a bad idea but it's massively chewing me up. Appreciate any thoughts!
I've recently come back to work from mat leave. When I left, the company had just embarked on a big expansion project - win more business, recruit more staff, and massively increase revenues within a year.
I come back - it turns out the first thing they did was make a number of non-client facing roles redundant. Revenues have plateaued. Then followed a number of resignations.
Now that I'm back no-one senior has directly addressed what has gone on and it feels very much "business as usual" in terms of my role, which is client facing. Whilst they're giving me a settling in period it's just about getting back to my pre-leave billing levels and trying to win new work, as I would expect if nothing had happened.
Except yesterday, my friend/colleague (same level) casually dropped in conversation that ideally for the business, one of the three of us at the same level would leave, and be replaced by more junior staff. Redundancies in our type of role (client facing) are not normal, so it sounds like they want us to walk. All three of us have been at the company a long time and gone through various rounds of promotions with more levels still above.
I could quiz her a bit more but I'm wondering if I just ask my boss what the position is. There are so many whisperings at the moment and I'd rather not get sucked down a rabbit hole. DH, however, thinks this is a bad idea as if isn't true it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy, with things being so unsettled.
I do see what he means, but I'm not really sure how I just crack on without reading into every little thing wondering if my job's at risk indefinitely?