... or do I just have to suck it up?
I work in the third sector, account-managing key funders for a charity. I'm on maternity leave, and will be going back part-time.
While I've been on leave, the team has been restructured and grown considerably to attempt to meet much bigger bloody ridiculous targets. I have been told, off the record, that my director considers me something of a nuisance, in as much as I'm not currently of any use (still on leave) and will be working part-time and having to leave on time due to childcare once I'm back. So her attitude is worrying me somewhat; I feel I'll be going back on the back foot.
I've been advised that my most lucrative funding relationships will now be managed by others in the team. They want me to come back and not feel "overwhelmed" by all the change and to be able to come straight in and do something I'm "comfortable" with, so will leave me with my "little" accounts, as I'll "only" be in part-time anyway.
In a recent meeting, I explained to my (new) manager that I have good relationships with these funders, and she said, well, staff and trustees change so the relationship doesn't last forever anyway. I also said I enjoyed and am good at working with funders at this level and would be sorry not to continue to - and she said but you haven't been here, so someone else has to look after them. (Yes while I'm on maternity leave, but when I get back too?) I'd achieved some great results with them, of which I'm immensely proud.
Also significantly, I'm worried that my CV is effectively going to nose-dive, not even plateau, if I go from bringing in big money to small; from looking after large, lucrative relationships to small ones. I started this role several years ago working even more part-time, "only" being in the office two days a week, and this didn't stop me achieving results with the big guns.
Can they change my portfolio to "small fry" like this, on the grounds of restructuring, expanding the team and new targets? Is this simply an inevitable, typical pitfall with working part-time combined with returning from maternity leave (i.e. career suicide)? I feel so disappointed.
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Subtle role change after maternity leave - is this maternity discrimination?
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divinedahlia · 05/10/2015 12:57
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