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Are work trying to make me leave?

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Polarbearflavour · 01/02/2018 14:08

I’ve been at my civil service employer for nearly a year. I’ve had a rubbish time here - bullying, no support, isolation etc. I put in a greivance that is still unresolved.

I then applied for an external recruitment campaign for a training scheme with around 50 places. I roll the job as they said they would move me intenally to the location where DP is (military) and that’s actually their policy to try and accommodate that.

Since starting the scheme I hate it. There was very little information as to what it was about and it’s all excel spreadsheets and my brain just said no! I have health issues at the moment and anxiety and the brain fog means it’s really hard to concentrate.

So work decided they can move me back to my old role function. They have a list of urgent vacancies. But it’s taking weeks to actually move me. It’s been two weeks now and the HR lady is on holiday for another two weeks and apparently nobody else can help me or move me.

I’ve already decided this Department is not for me. It’s old fashioned, slow, unpleasant and miserable colleagues etc. So I’m busily interviewing for jobs where DP is, Civil Service and outside the CS.

I literally have no work to do. New temp manager says there is no point in teaching or showing me anything. Nobody speaks to me. I’ve done all the online training courses, looked at the intranet etc. I work from home on the laptop when I can otherwise I just sit in the office (I don’t even have a desk half the time) and browse my phone all day and look for jobs.

Maybe I’m just feeling down but it feels like they’ve decided I’m a problem and just want me to leave. Sad

I’ve worked for the NHS and in financial services and never had these kind of problems before. Generally worked with nice people in supportive places with lots of work to do!

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Els1e · 01/02/2018 23:03

Move to the private sector ASAP. Public sector does your head in if you are a worker!

daisychain01 · 02/02/2018 07:25

On what basis does the public sector do your head in any more than an organisation in the private sector? Genuine question, the same challenges surely apply, regardless of sector, re employee transfers, finding the right manager to support a person's career etc, whichever sector. A significant proportion of the challenges on this board are in the private sector SME.

Stealth, maybe a good time to think about what you want from your next role, you seem to have bags of varied experience so ultimately employable, but I recognise it's difficult emotionally, if you are left dangling by a thread waiting for others to get their act together ! Can you at least nail their feet to the floor regarding timescales within the nearest month sounds like a complete arse ache grr on your behalf

Consideringbeingamom · 02/02/2018 07:29

It sounds like it may not be personal, they may just be really really disorganised which is frustrating for sure.

Polarbearflavour · 06/02/2018 12:54

Got a new job and about to resign! Yay!

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