To hate my new job and my new manager? Angry rant!

[erja]

Okay, this might be a complicated one to explain but I'll try and make it simple!

Got a new job 6 weeks ago. My job role was guaranteed to train me up to a certain level - say to do 10 different tasks (healthcare setting).

We got a new manager in 2 weeks ago - she's currently being trained by our former manager.
By this point, I'd learned about 3/10 different tasks that I was told I'd learn.

This week, the new manager has pulled me aside for a meeting and given me my 'new job role' and told me if I do well I'll get a pay rise? The new job role is basically the 3/10 tasks I've already learned but nothing else. They're very basic tasks (phone answering, healthcare forms) and I'm expected to sit on my own for 7 hours each day and do these repetitive things over and over, when prior to this, I was being trained in a fast paced environment, very customer facing, close team and starting to learn the 4th, 5th tasks (which were more complex).

I feel like I've just been whipped from everything I like about the job (fast paced, I like learning, career progression options, working in a team), and put on my own doing boring tasks that anyone could really do - I learned them within a few days - with no options to progress due to my 'new job role' being limited to these tasks.

I mentioned to my team before the end of today that I was going to speak to new manager and they told me to wait and speak to former manager as new manager is prepared to say no to me asking to move back to my original job role that I actually applied for!

Do I have a right to be raging here? How can a new manager come and just move someone from the role they're in to a role they don't want and then be prepared to say no when they say they don't want to do it?
I've loved my job before this week but have been miserable every day and feel completely stuck and like I'm not able to get back to my actual job which I enjoyed! I don't even know what to do!!!

I've just found out new manager has interviewed another girl to work in the job I was supposed to be doing!!!!!

Who is it? Her best mate?

@Mrshoneyneedsanewhat no, just another young girl!

Ouch! That is awful, especially about her interviewing another person. Is it a friend of hers by any chance?if you’re in a union then I’d speak to them. Or perhaps ring ACAS for advice. Best to know exactly where you stand before auctioning any complaints.

Wow, I would directly ask new manager why she is interviewing someone else for your role but not letting you fill it.

Nepotism it sounds like

@BlackPrism she told me she'd rather me do the 'new role' because I'm so good at answering the phones and taking messages from people and making sure they've been passed on

Nothing you can do.
Most job specs in the role you're doing have a bit at the bottom covering, "responsibilities may change depending on business needs". Admin is admin, they can change the task within it - unlikely each admin task named as business needs flexibility as needs change.

It's not nice but the best course of action is talk to new manager and explain your disappointment and how you want to be challenged in your role. I'd love you in my team, I've got some one who refuses to do anything other than answer the phone and ignore other activities!

If they won't support your development, simply hang on in there and get experience, don't burn any bridges, then apply elsewhere. You'll easily get another job!