if you get a temporary move to a more senior job internally would you go back to the more junior one at the end?

[hatwoman]

is it just what happens or is it a bit lacking in dignity?

i think that's absolutely fine

i guess it depends why it is temporary - covering an absence?

if so be really cool about it - dont start restructuring things - and it will reflect really well on you - so next one that comes up (or person leaves) you are there to step in

In theory yes you would go back to your normal job at the end. In practice, in my experience anyway, the person is more likely to either do the job permanently (depending on the reason for the initial temporary appt) or transfer to another job, or leave.

Depends a lot on how long 'temporary' is, how much of a hike up it is, etc etc

It would depend I suppose. I was an acting HoD, and would have had to have applied for my job at the end of the year if I hadn't moved away. If I had applied and not got it, then I don't know whether I could have stayed on.

If I didn't apply, or if the job was not part of the same team, then it would be different.

And what newgirl said as well.

Don't see how it lacks dignity

no I know it's the theory - what I meant was, ultimately, should I just resign? I am coming to the end of the senior bit. and I am so fed up it's not true. no idea what i'd go to. virtually impossible to line myself up with another job.there's a long history to all this

here too though I understand if you;re really not hat interested!

In your case, no - it doesn't lack dignity. But if you don't like the job you're going back to then it isn't lack of dignity that is the issue really.

I remember the July thread.

I don't think it lacks dignity to go back to your old job. I don't think that is actually the problem really. You are seriously fed up. With the additional experience you have got from doing the senior bit could you look elsewhere?

just read the history

i guess its the old cliche - dont cut your nose off to spite your face - if you are going to end up stuck without a job you like dont go anywhere

id stay put and perhaps job hunt as well

im freelance and have a dif view of working now - i tend to do what suits me and my family rather than get overly involved in organisational politics - looking back i am amazed how passionate i was about the hierachies etc - at the end of the day, stick with the job if it suits you/pays the bills and then leave on your own terms

I am in just that position and was told I did the work really well - no lost dignity, just a feeling of being unsettled and wanting to find a more permanent senior post because I miss the extra money!

I'm always looking elsehwere! I told my boss that too. (the one I'm going back to)she's bending over backwards to keep me - she clearly thinks I'm going to leave - she's told me that on paper I'm going back to my old job but that I can do whatever I like. (within reason...) But what I want is just not here - it's respect for good quality work. respect that is explicitly manifested - not just fed to me in nice words in snatched conversations. I also want disrespect for crap work - again properly manifested, not just said sneakily in that "you're in the good club you" kind of way. do people not realise how it feels, as a middle level person with aspirations, to be told that you are good and that so and so is crap when both are true and so and so is more senior than you. it's gobsmacking and it happens all the time.

It sounds as though you are valued where you are, and it sounds as though the prospect of going back to your original job as it was isn't going to happen as such either.

But actually none of that is the issue, the problem is your current employer is not where you want to work. I am stating the bleeding obvious again, as I just did on another thread.

Hmm. Trying to think of something helpful to say..

thanks fbb. thanks for indulging me! it's so hard - I have such a love-hate relationship with this place. I can't imagine not being here but when it gets me down it gets me really down. there's no useful advice to give me really. I'll stay until I find something else. I did find something else about a year ago and I turned it down. It was the right decision. I'll probably still be here when i retire...

Huge sympathy and empathy as well, I know what you mean.