Is this normal for junior people in the workplace OR am I being pushed over?
I need help on what to do.
Current situation:
- Joined a team last year January to be a specialist policy advisor in a finance department
- Up until December all I did was track meetings, send speculative policy summaries to my managers who didn’t have time to read them, create presentations no one read, arrange team meetings and do administrative tasks
- all my other colleague do work in scope to the mandate of our team (my project was dumped on the team) AND even my peer in the team doesn’t do this and I am more senior post promotion and have been in the team a bit longer
- I am 90% of the time alone in the office as my manager spends all their time in the big office doing FaceTime (this is kind of annoying as I am quite junior) but I’m kind of over it now. There is no team atmosphere and I’ve learned to be independent
- I raised my concerns to my manager and in December and I was given a compliance project (policy and compliance are TWO very different things btw). The project involves tracking regulation and ensuring every finance team is aware / monitoring their compliance (snooze) but I have free reign on this but of course my manager is the face of the project and will chair everything while I write minutes and consolidate 20 different spreadsheets :D
- We have a compliance function but they are dysfunctional
- I am the only resource dedicated to this project. Other teams running a similar project have a team of 4-10
What I have done:
- I have applied to every job under the sun (and to no avail)
- this experience has put me off policy to the point I am considering becoming a gardener
- I am in my mid-20s / I earn 50-58K per year and have no dependents
- I got promoted
What should I do?
- Stick it out because I feel like I move to a different team once a year because they treat me like their PA (only two years of working post traineeship with current employer)
- continue applying for other jobs even though my project hasn’t entirely settled into the function (I’ve done everything as a project manager but try telling quant guys they have to do something about their compliance)
- I would feel awkward leaving knowing my managers promoted me 2 mins ago and now I am off. It wouldn’t be a surprise I am sure but I don’t want to burn bridges
HELP! I need insight !
Current situation:
- Joined a team last year January to be a specialist policy advisor in a finance department
- Up until December all I did was track meetings, send speculative policy summaries to my managers who didn’t have time to read them, create presentations no one read, arrange team meetings and do administrative tasks
- all my other colleague do work in scope to the mandate of our team (my project was dumped on the team) AND even my peer in the team doesn’t do this and I am more senior post promotion and have been in the team a bit longer
- I am 90% of the time alone in the office as my manager spends all their time in the big office doing FaceTime (this is kind of annoying as I am quite junior) but I’m kind of over it now. There is no team atmosphere and I’ve learned to be independent
- I raised my concerns to my manager and in December and I was given a compliance project (policy and compliance are TWO very different things btw). The project involves tracking regulation and ensuring every finance team is aware / monitoring their compliance (snooze) but I have free reign on this but of course my manager is the face of the project and will chair everything while I write minutes and consolidate 20 different spreadsheets :D
- We have a compliance function but they are dysfunctional
- I am the only resource dedicated to this project. Other teams running a similar project have a team of 4-10
What I have done:
- I have applied to every job under the sun (and to no avail)
- this experience has put me off policy to the point I am considering becoming a gardener
- I am in my mid-20s / I earn 50-58K per year and have no dependents
- I got promoted
What should I do?
- Stick it out because I feel like I move to a different team once a year because they treat me like their PA (only two years of working post traineeship with current employer)
- continue applying for other jobs even though my project hasn’t entirely settled into the function (I’ve done everything as a project manager but try telling quant guys they have to do something about their compliance)
- I would feel awkward leaving knowing my managers promoted me 2 mins ago and now I am off. It wouldn’t be a surprise I am sure but I don’t want to burn bridges
HELP! I need insight !
31-35, F
