Well 2023 has been the shittest year of my career.
This time last year I left an organisation I'd happily worked for for 10 years - great reputation and well thought of- for a role with more challenge, better pay, and seemingly at step up. Anyhow, this role was fine but the people and company were not good and very old fashioned outlook so I new wasn't a good fit. I resigned and left after 11 months with no bad blood because i was offered a similar role in another org - a smaller start up but seemed more dynamic etc
anyhow- on day 1 they announce i need to be away from home overnight on a project miles away from home for 3 days and another day in a long meeting miles away from home. My role is home based with travel 2-3 times as required and have done this sort of thing for years and you out more weeks than others, the odd planned overnight here and there etc and this was my understanding of what we discussed. I have a child in nursery so there's drop off and pick up times - have always worked flexibly with my husband but me being away like this seemingly indefinitely was not my understanding of role. Anyway - i raised this, did the first week to show willing and then had what i thought was a conversation where i could do one day less in the project for a few weeks and then given something more local i can commute to - happy days.
Then i was told actually you are not needed there after all but here is all this work we need doing and you can do that from home . This type of work also part of my role but i did wonder why the sudden change. I'm also told the meetings are not going ahead. So i crack on with it and keep suggesting i can start the local work - oh no we need this doing first. Anyhow - yesterday i get a call basically saying they are terminating my contract with a weeks notice because im not doing the project work they need. Whilst i get they need someone who can commit to that i don't believe that was clearly communicated - if they had said that openly i would not have taken the post. Im more perturbed that they obviously decided after the initial convo to let me go and have been basically lying to me and getting me to catch up in all their client project stuff before doing this. I would have preferred an open conversation right at the beginning g when this issue was raised and could have the opportunity to resign.
I know i have limited employment rights but the shittiness of the behaviour is what has got me - we are senior professional people fgs. So that's it - no job, how to explain this on my CV - i knew the post wasn't gonna be right because of this matter so have been applying for stuff but they are bloody there in the CV now for all active applications
I'm sorry for the essay - just ranting about this and how the fuck we're gonna get through xmas 