Moving roles at work - nobody will talk to me about it

[Polarbearflavour]

So I’m leaving a job I hate. I’ve got an internal move to a new team / role / Location.

I leave just before Christmas. Everybody knows. None of the managers will mention it to me. As in, they are ignoring it and change the subject if I try to raise it.

It’s a weird team anyway and I don’t particularly like them. The other lady doing the same job as me left the organisation within two months of starting. There are now two vacant posts in this team (same job title)

So with nobody to handover to and my managers refusing to discuss I’m leaving - what do I do on my last day?

[Polarbearflavour]

SpongeBob - I am trying to leave as so many other staff have - there are hundreds of vacant posts.

As I said earlier:

“I’m using it as a means to an end to jump ship. They are moving me to my preferred location and I’m once I’m there I’ll look for something else.”

[BinRaidingRaccoon]

Hope your new boss is better. But yes, its a weird, incestuous set up there. Everyone knows each other and it's hard!!

[retirednow]

it's not a health care related job is it? I recently walked out of a horrendous place, bullying was rife, the manager and the 'gang' had their favourites and were constantly getting away with stuff no one else would. I doubt if anyone there even knew what a staff survey is and if they did they wouldn't care anyway. Best off out of it.

[Bluntness100]

I always think the rule is, if someone has not yet accepted the role, you can warn them as long as you’re honest. If they’ve accepted the job and there is no going back, don’t do it.

I was moved internally years ago. On my first day the first two team members I met members told me what an awful job it was. They were right of course, but the truth was at that stage it really didn’t set me off on the right foot and just made me worried. It would have been better if they had kept their mouths shut.

[Polarbearflavour]

Retirednow - not healthcare but a huge public sector organisation that you will have heard of.

I’ve been bullied and excluded from praise and events. Prime example is manager buying all his direct reports a Christmas present (bottle of wine) hanging them out in front of me. I got nothing. Praising other people for work I’ve contributed towards and I get nothing. Not invited to the Christmas party and lunch.

Other manager I put in a grievance against doesn’t really talk to me now and nor do his cronies. Other people around me are offered cake etc and he walks right past me.

Lots of small things like that. Oh and my appraisal was “good” with no negative feeeback! It’s like they’ve just decided to wash their hands of me now.

I’ve read emails about me (not to me!) that say I take too much time off sick like all young people do! I challenged it and I haven’t even met the sickness thresholds! I’ve dragged myself in with tonsillitis and viruses.

They NEVER confront me, it’s all done behind my back.

I don’t think I’m a shrinking violet. I’ve worked in the City for demanding bosses BUT the difference is they said thank you and I was part of the team. I got to travel with them. They were polite to me. We had lots of work social events. Even when asked to buy a birthday cake for my boss’s mum or buy my boss a hog roast or something equally inane, it was asked politely. It was also time out of the office and I was told to buy myself a coffee / lunch with his money.

[retirednow]

I don't think I will bother applying for a job then. Good luck with finding something better.