Hi All!

10 Comments

1. AnonymousOctober 10,2024 at 12:27PM UTC

   This unfortunately is a vote on no confidence in your management and leadership capabilities.

   What can you do? Start looking for a new job, this one will be a dead end.

   Make sure your LinkedIn profile is up to date and you’re posting regular content and thought leadership pieces. Start networking and reconnecting with professional contacts and let them know you’re looking.

   I’m sorry this is happening. Consider how much time you’ll invest into clawing back your previous leadership role for a job that has dropped you in this way.

2. AnonymousOctober 11,2024 at 2:33PM UTC

   Please don't jump to conclusions. Consultants receive a higher salary because they do not receive benefits like healthcare and holiday - your total compensation may be higher. Use this as an opportunity to really shine in the portion of your job that you have and enjoy less stress!

3. AnonymousOctober 16,2024 at 5:21PM UTC

   Agree

4. AnonymousOctober 11,2024 at 5:21PM UTC

   Stay the course. Be sure to not feel the need to compete with the external folks. Be great at your job and if you don't have enough to do ask for more work. Collaborate and definitely make your 1-1's with your direct manager count. Track all of your work and progress and solicit feedback each week on the path and how you are doing. If you get any feedback that needs improvement be sure to fix or work on those things. Clearly the upper levels want faster movement and often hiring an external non-permanent resource is less costly than a FTE for the same need. Focus on your own work and let it go.

5. AnonymousOctober 13,2024 at 3:48PM UTC

   have you heard about “ghosting”, business malpractice pretend to be leverage at work but coverup corruption and misconduct such as alias fraud, identity theft, payroll theft, white gloves, account take over, money laundering, unauthorized access, impersonating, predator attempts, security breach.

   Setup strong boundaries and move on from the lawless bad actors, always say NO to whom harm you silently than treat you with respect and fairness.

6. misskelleypOctober 13,2024 at 10:52PM UTC

   I'd start looking for another job, clearly they don't value you.

7. AnonymousOctober 15,2024 at 4:53AM UTC

   Unfortunately, your best best is probably to start looking elsewhere. It's possible they truly are just trying to spread the work around so you (or someone else) isn't overloaded, but it's ALSO possible they feel you aren't the right person for the job. You can certainly try to ask for feedback and determine which is the case, but I sense you're already quite frustrated by this, in which case it's probably best to go somewhere that you're sure you're valued!

8. AnonymousOctober 17,2024 at 12:34PM UTC

   As some have mentioned, consultants are paid higher because they do not receive all the other benefits of being a 'regular' employee.

   If it were me and assuming the consultant is open to it, I would take advantage of the opportunity to work with someone with more experience. Learn what you can from him and start applying it to your area of the business. It helps build your skill set and it shows your company that you can re-task, focus and expand your abilities and value. (yes, there is the cynical view that doing all that will equate to nothing in your current job.) To me, no learning is ever wasted.

9. AnonymousOctober 18,2024 at 3:19PM UTC

   I understand how you feel. But you do acknowledge that the new hire "has more experience than me". And, the rationale that your employer offered regarding plans for future growth makes sense. It feels weird to have some of your work load shifted- I get it. And, it sounds like you are no longer in a managerial role, right? Honestly, there isn't much to be done at this point. I would simply follow the corporate lead and do what is asked of you, and do it well. Might end up being a very positive change in many ways. Push your feelings aside. The future is not known right now, and no one has indicated that you are not a favored employee. Change is weird and hard. Just do your best and go with it for a while. Good luck to you!

10. AnonymousOctober 18,2024 at 3:33PM UTC

    I hired a consultant to help on my team, he does get paid more because he doesn't get paid time off, health benefits, all the perks that come with working at our company (free travel being one!)

    I did it because we have so much we could be doing but we're barely getting the needed work done with the team I had. Much less any special projects that could really move the needle got the bottom line of the company.

    Now they all have very specific responsibility areas and can take them to the next level. My existing analyst has really been shining as of late because he has the space to not only get the job done but put much more analysis and insight into his assignments. He struggled in the beginning I think out of jealously, he has moved on in time and sees the bigger benefit.

    I think more of my existing analyst now that we have the consultant than I did before. And we are not working late hours and on the weekends like we were. We were tapped out as a team

    Take the opportunity, make your assigned areas even better and learn from the consultant. Ours has made us all better.