I'm truly hoping someone can give me some advice. I took a secondment from my old team due to sheer burnout in a large org (unpaid overtime, to much work not enough staff with unrealistic timescales)
I'm in my secondment told and it's due to end in jan which I love . My lovely new manager has informed me the head of the department of my old team has asked him if he would end my secondment early to go back to my old team as they are lacking staff and hiring freeze at the moment (lots of people on sick leave due to stress and burn out) and loads of work they want doing ASAP. I wasn't asked or consulted but it sounds like my current manager at my secondment feels a bit backed into a corner.
We are going through a reorganisation and my secondment area is due to be closed as of January and my new manager is worried that if we don't reach a agreement then my job will be at risk as technically I'm still owned by my "old role" which will be still around post reorg with a couple of tweaks. He's worried if we don't try and meet in the middle then I will be one of those tweaks. Problem is I would probably prefer to be set on fire than to go back ! So was hoping to apply to roles outside of my old role. When the time comes.
Firstly is this common practice that managers would approach another manager to see if they would end my secondment without involving or even asking me if I wanted to do this ? I feel a bit like a pawn because in essence they want me to do both roles and my old role will literally push me to the edge again. My old team begrudgingly let me go but it was very begrudgingly.
Just to complicate things I'm pregnant and classed as high risk, and awaiting results to see if this pregnancy will be compatible with life I'm currently 16weeks if that's relevant.
My new manger knows about the pregnancy but my old role doesn't as they are a bit of a boys club and have been known to make people redundant unless they are actually on mat leave due to various loop holes involving non specific jobs roles and "matching based on job descriptions" which is kept purposefully vague. My new manager has said he will keep my pregnancy on the down low until we know if the pregnancy will be viable as he's also seen this in action and knows I'm now at risk of losing my baby and job if they know right now as reorg is happening.
Help ?! Sorry this is so long !