Relegated to a lesser role.

[myjess]

I started working for a company >2years ago, and at that time was one of the first in the door of the new office. I did what was asked of me, and had to travel a bit and help transition work into this new office. Since then, there have been a number of new people added to the team on a higher grade than me. There is also a new management structure in the office which was not there when I started work, and I now have a new line manager.

I no longer get to do any of the transition work or travelling to customers sites as that now gets done by the people on the higher grade.

I feel that I have now been relegated to a lesser role.

 

Do I have any recourse in any way to rectify this.

The new line manager knows my feelings, but does not seem to care.

 

Thank you.

[Bigredbus]

Are you missing on some things?... training?, bonuses?, advantages, which other colleagues would get and not you?...

[myjess]

Are you missing on some things?... training?, bonuses?, advantages, which other colleagues would get and not you?...

 

Well, I would say that getting todo transition of services and first contact is an advantage I am not getting.

 

I would aslo say that a job has come up but because I did not get the training that others got in my team, I could apply for it, but would not meet the pre-requisites, so others have an advantage over me here also.

 

Thanks for replying.

[Bigredbus]

Were you entitled to get that training? Would have that training been part of a natural progression?

Edited March 1, 2010 by Bigredbus
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[myjess]

Dunno if you could say I was entitled. If I was entitled I would have taken the training. I don't really understand what you mean, sorry.

[Bigredbus]

Your other colleagues have been to that training... you are on the same level as they are (?)... they get training and not you...

[Bigredbus]

I am just trying to understand if you have been discriminated against...

[myjess]

Well, I have got training but I have not got the training That they got for the new job that has magically appeared.

 

I have had training in other things that other peope in my grade have not had training for. The training I got was on the business critical training plan.

 

But it is more the first comment I made above that I am trying to determine if there's anything I can do.

 

Thanks again for reading.

[diamondgirl]

Maybe you would be better to arrange a meeting with perhaps someone more senior than your line manager - if as you say they dont care - you could then ask senior management why you have been passed over, they have a duty to tell you why you've been passed over and what you can do to ensure that it doesn't happen to you again. You would then also be able to ask why they've come into a new job on a higher grade than you.

 

We have a similar problem where I work we are taking on a lot of new staff some of whom are coming into a job they have never done before but are now over people who have worked for the company for quite a while and it does cause a bit of friction. These new people also have never worked in this industry before and are now telling others how to do the job they've been doing for a long time.

 

DG