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Feel so stuck at work - wwyd

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Duckling89 · 16/11/2023 18:13

Feeling so stuck after being passed over for a promotion again!

I work in a company that has lots of small teams looking after clients. Some people will stay within one team for a long time (years) therefore building up a good relationship, others move more often - it’s normally based on where resource is needed. In the last few years I’ve moved teams around 5 times, never of my own choice, and each time I had got a new line manager and team to manage. Each time I move I feel like I start over with establishing myself. Managers are meant to hand over but never do. I actually got put forward for promotion in April but this team didn’t have the income to sign it off, then I got moved
to another team and it’s got lost.

I started job hunting but then fell pregnant, the baby is wanted very much. I’m 25 weeks now. My company has a great maternity package so moving jobs wouldn’t have made financial sense. But each day that goes on and my peers move up and I don’t I just feel so stuck and my confidence is an all time low. I can’t see that my career is ever going to move forward. I’ve voiced this so many times to senior managers but they just can’t seem to make a solution happen, I seem to fall through the cracks.

WWYD? Is there light at the end of the tunnel or is this my life from now on? I’m 33 by the way.

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NotReadyForThisYet · 16/11/2023 18:16

Wait it out, go on maternity, go back after maternity then start job hunting.

Why are you moved? Is it to sort out failing teams or because your team isn’t reaching targets? I’m wondering if it’s because you are too good at sorting out others messes so they don’t wNt to promote you and lose your experience where you are.

Congratulations on your pregnancy.

Duckling89 · 16/11/2023 18:21

I think they just move people where there are gaps, sometimes clients do move meaning resource needs change. It’s always aimed as a department ‘reshuffle’ but two of my colleagues have worked in the same team for over five years!

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