Hi everyone,
I don't know what to do about my work situation. I'm currently in a permanent management role but it's a lot of responsibility on 3 days per week. I returned from maternity leave at the start of this year and was placed in this role, I didn't apply for it. I manage a large team and there should be another person doing it as well (at full time) but they left a few months ago and haven't been backfilled so it's currently all on me and I'm exhausted. There are other things being thrown at me too by my director who just doesn't seem to understand what we do in my area. Last week I caught up with him and despite me covering everything on my own, he focused on all the things I haven't done so I came away very demotivated and stressed. To be transparent, we've never got on and I've felt badly treated by him in the past. I don't know if this is clouding my judgment.
Fast forward to this week, a job has come up unexpectedly in a similar role in a different area without the line management responsibility so I've put an application in and have an interview next week. Better to have options, right?
My current boss says she will be gutted to lose me and I think she will try to convince me to stay. I'm not sure anything will change enough to really improve the situation though. I feel invisible a lot of the time and left out of things when they happen on my non-working days. There isn't as much consideration of part time working as I've had in previous roles.
I feel disappointed that it's got to this as my experience does fit my current role well and there are so many things I could do to improve the team etc but I can't work under my director, I find his leadership style very difficult and lacking support. I know the other role would be a better fit for my work life balance, I have two preschool children.
Is this just what happens as a part time worker? I feel bad for potentially leaving my current team. I've worked at my employer for a long time and know I need to remove emotion from this situation.
My husband thinks I should see how the interview goes and move if I'm offered the role. He thinks the part time discrimination is worse than I realise and if I'm not offered the other role then I should go off sick with work related stress. WWYD?