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Feeling disillusioned

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MadameBee · 03/09/2020 22:57

At work.

Been restructured and was put in a post I had no choice but to preference for and now have managers in charge of me from another department who basically have no idea how to do their own job, never mind my job and we are having to “train” them, while they get paid £10,000 a year more than us because they had to be slotted in, we have all but in pay been demoted. The new managers do not have a clue what they are doing in the field they are in (children’s services).

Today one of the new managers turns up for a meeting in our socially distanced office where only a few of us are allowed 10 to x6 that amount of desks for a meeting with 4 people in the conference room. We make confidential calls in our office regarding child sexual abuse, domestic abuse and everything else in between.

She brings her 3 children under the age of 10, leaves them at the back of our office and disappears into the conference suite which has mirrored windows leaving them for 1.5 hours while we try to work while these children scream, shout and play and run around our office.

We are unsure what to do as she is a new senior manager and this is the first time this team has been able to meet in person.

Office manager sees what is going on and goes ballistic re kids in a work environment, covid (desks cordoned off etc) and wants to storm in, we dissuade her and suggest she writes an email to said manager instead.

She does pointing out general inappropriateness if bringing children to office, being unsupervised, loud, covid etc.

Manager replies basically defending herself.

What the actual fuck do I do with this incompetent shit?

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MadameBee · 03/09/2020 23:00

And sorry forgot to add what the fuck would you do?

I thought the email would point out how absolutely inappropriate this was, but no.

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LouiseTrees · 03/09/2020 23:04

Go above her. What about the director? In child services you do not want to be hearing children screaming in the background on your side. What excuses did this woman give?

Babyroobs · 03/09/2020 23:04

No idea what I would do but she should have sorted out some kind of child care surely?

MadameBee · 03/09/2020 23:08

She was kind of saying they were within the view of the window (mirrored glass) and why didn’t anyone say anything at the time (because no one could believe you thought this was ok and we didn’t know where to start challenging you?!)

She’s on £45k plus, she could have arranged child care.

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TorgosPizza · 03/09/2020 23:12

Does it seem likely she thinks she's okay to bring the children again? That would affect how I'd proceed, though I'd be thoroughly annoyed that it had happened the first time and that she'd thought it was alright to blame everyone else for her poor choices.

If it's possible to report the incident to someone higher up, I would. Maybe anonymously, if that's a possibility and if you fear repercussions if you do it "officially".

MadameBee · 03/09/2020 23:15

This is why we did the softly softly as we thought surely she doesn’t realise how inappropriate this is, but no she truly has no idea as was justifying it to the office manger, rather than, omg this will never happen again I didn’t think this through.

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MadameBee · 03/09/2020 23:16

I don’t trust the next manager higher up, she’s newly promoted and drunk on power atm.

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MadameBee · 03/09/2020 23:30

The only person I trust is my last manager who is the same grade but an absolute buta an absolute bitch 😭

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