Sure, apologies, it's long.
In February '24 my line manager announced he was going on a sabbatical in April. I found out I was pregnant in March. I told my line manager and the interim manager who was taking his place I was pregnant even though it was early days because I had bad all day morning sickness.
In May I got a call from one of the business heads to let me know there would be a restructuring and my role was at risk, but I would not be at risk due to my pregnancy. The period of consultation was likely to take a number of months.
In July, the same head contacted me again to say he'd sent me a letter to confirm my role was to be made redundant and I would be moved to a similar role and grade on X team under the proposed new structure. I asked what my role would be and was told it hadn't been decided, but it would be one of the roles left on the team at my grade once the structure was finalised. My line manager and half my team's roles were made redundant. The rest had to reapply for their roles.
In mid-August, I had what I thought was my interim performance review and handover meeting with the interim manager (which she never logged).
Early September, I had a meeting with my new line manager and the head to discuss work to close down, or do, before leaving. I asked again about my new role, I was told the structure was not yet finalised.
Just before I went on mat leave in October I was asked to submit my self-assessment review. I said I had closed this in August with the interim manager. The end of year forms were not even live on the system as it was too early.
In November, I was chased to submit the self assessment so I did.
January this year I was asked to book an end of year discussion and mat leave check in. I questioned both and was told not to worry, there had been changes since I left and they wanted to do things properly and keep me up to date.
16h January, I had the end of year meeting on Teams with my new line manager and the head where I was given my rating, review and feedback. I asked them to send me the written document so I could respond, which they did on the 17th of January, although I had to chase. I was 3 months postpartum at this date. I submitted my feedback to the written review on the 29th of January.
31st of January I had a mat leave check meeting with them. Apparently, these are normal, although I never had one in my first pregnancy unless I requested it. I allowed it because I'd seen news stories about more restructuring taking place and further jobs cut. I wanted an explanation from them on the new structure. The detail was slippery, to say the least. A large part of the business is gone and regions merged The proposed structure when I left in October clearly no longer exists.
They did not want to discuss the feedback or my role plan on my return as it was a check-in meeting, not a RTW meeting.
I still have the pay meeting booked for next Friday which I'm considering cancelling. I said in the last meeting I didn't think it was necessary to meet again until I wanted to book a KIT day, they seemed to accept that.
a) I am slightly worried about the previous reports, but they were from 2022. I shared them with my original line manager and he said they would remain confidential. But you never know. Also, I'm better now.
b) True,* *I've only witnessed one successful payout to a peer because there was clear physical evidence a business head undermined and blocked her. I didn't expect this level of underhand behaviour to happen to me. It's pretty low, and I suspect it could get worse. I want to avoid any further surprises if I can.
c) I think this is covered in my timeline.
Thanks again for your feedback.