I’m not sure if this will end up being a long story or not, but just in case, bear with me.
I worked for my current employer(yes, current and former) for 6.5 years and decided it was time to move to another company. I am in manufacturing, I am a senior fabricator and was the lead on the night shift crew. Also I live a little over an hour away.
Found a company that is a 10 minute drive from my home. Interviewed with them and they were going to pay me just a dollar less than what I was making. ( felt I had to try it, I thought it would be foolish not to.)
I put my notice in, and all was well. They weren’t happy to see me go, but they didn’t do anything to keep me. So off I went to the new company.
Well, 2 months in to the new company and I’ll be damned if they didn’t sell me a bill of goods. I wasn’t doing what I was told I would, my skills weren’t being used so I felt underutilized.
I call my old employer and have conversations with all the management and HR that I need to. During one of these calls I’m basically told that the last few years of my job there(when I became the night shift lead) that I wasn’t good, couldn’t handle it, etc. Now, all this is said with me knowing that during my time as lead, I had received multiple service recognitions awards for production, leadership, etc. I had the COO and the president of the company come to me and personally than me for the work I had been doing with the shop and how our throughput has never been so good, etc.
After talking with my dad he helped me realize that well I left, so they’d be mad. Now I’m not saying I agree, but I can understand to a degree. If it stopped there.
I have been back at this company for over a year and ever since I’ve come back, management has basically treated me as a bastard child.
It seems instead of them seeing as a bad business decision, they’re taking it personally. Like I’m working for a guy whose daughter I swindled into bed and ditched her or whatever.
With that, I have bumped into the President and COO multiple times, and they are always happy to see me, shake my hand and thank me for my work.
I can understand being upset that a good worker left, but I came back after a business decision didn’t work out. I have worked my tail off, all the executives are happy to have me back, but supervisors and the plant manager continue to give me shit.
I’ve been trying to grin and bear it, keep my head down and just work, but this just seems like childish BS to me. No matter what I do they do whatever they can to shit on me.
Other than finding a new job(hard to find places to match what I make$ and do) what can I do about this? In my eyes it’s extremely unprofessional.
Sorry for the long rant.