Sorry - this turned into a rant, but posting anyway!
Usual stuff in our workplace. Incumbent staff being passed over for contractors and no career progression. Now I'm joining the list of disgruntled employees.
I'm a MIS support analyst and have been instrumental in implementing the new MIS - indeed I'd go as far as to say that if I hadn't been recruited [as an admin], it would not have been delivered.
My project/line manager has just announced her resignation.
I knew about it a couple of weeks ago as she took me out for a lunch/chat and told me then. Since then I have spoken to our department manager and a contractor who is currently with us in a senior role. I have let them know that I would like to develop my role and had been assured that I had already been pencilled in to fill at least some of her responsibilities. [I'm not a manager and don't want a management role, as there isn't a project to manage any more. Our new MIS is now at 'business as usual' hence her wanting to move on.]
I was therefore being led to believe that my role could be developed further and that I could now take on more responsibility [indeed, my role profile has already been reviewed and a request sent to ratify it, as my job now isn't what it was originally, but that review has been black-balled owing to a huge turnover in senior staff and a new director putting everything on hold] .
I found out today that this won't be happening as I am now effectively reporting to a senior contractor [who is a user, not an MIS techie]. In other words, my role won't be developing any time soon and I will simply be reporting to someone else from now on.
I have [today, by coincidence] just achieved my NQV L3 in Business Administration and was really looking forward to bringing some of what I have learned in the last 12 months of hard slog [out of office hours, but paid for by my employer] into practice as my role developed, but that seems to me to have just been a waste of time.
This is sounding like an AIBU, but I'm really annoyed. I don't want to leave as for me as it's local, flexi, final salary pension good holidays, etc etc and I do enjoy my job. I'd just like some recognition for the technical role I have played which I wasn't recruited for specifically but has proved a real bonus to the department and some prospect of career progression.
I have been a team leader in the dim past [along with a degree in IT from 1984 (sic!)] and am well respected in the department. One of my senior colleagues has already asked me if I'm applying for my manager's job. I know [well I thought I did - that might be a lie too] that her role isn't to be recruited for as there isn't a project management role now anyway, so I was expecting to be given more responsibility in my current role, as opposed to a promotion to management level.
DH says to resign and go elsewhere. Opinions please?