Being pushed out?

[illmonkey]

Without giving to much explicit details, I feel like my role is becoming redundant on purpose.

A lot of my responsibilities are being outsourced, and I'm being stopped from doing my job (not being given the tools I need), fobbed off with rubbish excuses.

I have made complaints to senior management and not much is changing. I also know there is a similar role in a parent company being advertised which legally has to be offered internally which hasn't. As well as other jobs that are within my scope not being advertised.

I'd like to know where I stand, of course it might end in redundancy, but due to the position they've put me in and not offering roles I could do, are they being naughty?

[illmonkey]

My job consists of some basic admin stuff, which anyone could do after being told it a few times to doing month(s) of long project work. It's development and testing mainly. I would also keep an eye on related equipment in the office, which has been put into the cloud, and I can't access it. So I'm now down to just doing the basics and every so often doing the projects as and when, buy my boss is holding back on stuff I need to do it.

I say I feel like that is what is happening as I've not been my bosses favourite, as I've stood up to them when they've been wrong. I feel they are making these changes to get at me. It's a horrible work environment, and along with the above and not letting me have what I need to do the development work, I'm being made to do crap/nothing. I want to work and improve things, if there is work I get it done, so it's very off for me.

I can't say, apart from the horrible relationship with my boss, anything is off. Directors have pulled me aside and thanked me for my work and said I do a good job. I've complained about my boss previously and nothing gets done. It's all politics.

I do not directly make them money, so I don't get the golf days the sales fellas do, but I do maintain a system than is the main source of income for the business.

Stevie, if I got fired for not doing the job, because they'd not provided what I need, surely I can come back at them? It's their own fault I can't do it and to fire me would be wrongful dismissal no?

I'm fine going, but I want them to do it the correct way, in that, if they've pushed me into this, and deliberately not told me about jobs I could apply for to get out of my current position, they need to sort me out. Isn't that illegal, not offering jobs internally?

[illmonkey]

SpeckledJim said:

That's a mad thing to do.

Your job-role is two-fold: to make your boss' life easier, and to make them look good. If you care too much to support them in (what you think are) bad decisions, you might be better-off as your own boss.

On the other hand, their decisions might be being made with the benefit of information you are not privy to, and they might be being made by people more capable than you (perhaps), in which case your card will be well-marked.

If I had an underling who was a pain (ignoring the objective rights and wrongs) I'd try to manage them out. Effecting change is already too difficult, and life is too short, to spend time doing battle with staff.

(I don't think they have to offer you any new positions - if they're advertising externally, they've probably already decided they don't want anyone internal.)

Ok, it wasn't calling them out when they've been wrong (which is frequently), but the general crap I receive from them, even slightly aggressive behaviour, witnessed by HR. Many many people in this company are fed up of them, and don't want to deal with them, so it's not just me. Everyone I've told about their 'doings' agrees it's not on and should be handled by upper management.

I know that my boss would not allow me to have the job, so it's pointless, but I was more asking if they had to by law. There have been several jobs in my department that I've heard about but not been told about.

I'm just trying to get an idea of where I stand. I've put up with crap for years, been made to rush projects which should not be rushed etc, now I'm in a position where my work load is less and most of it could be done by someone earning less. I am also not being given other work I could do. My wedge is getting small.