I am absolutely sick right now. I was given a promotion last week, complete with a title change, raise AND they said they’d be hiring me a part time assistant so I can offload my smaller duties and focus on big picture stuff. Have been flying high ever since, as this promotion has been my ultimate goal after slowly climbing the ladder for 6 years and showing them how hard I’m willing to work.
Fast forward to today’s complete slap in the face. Boss calls me to say that in looking for someone to fill the part time role of assisting me, they were referred someone who has a higher degree (but the same level of experience, in a neighboring industry.) It would be “an insult” to pay this person part time to help with my duties, so instead, they’d like to bring them on part time but NOT as my assistant. And what do you know? Darn, I already have “manager” in my title, so they don’t want to give me a better title now because my title is already “so great!”. Oh yeah and also, this person gets to be fully remote right out of the gate, while I’m a hybrid employee who was always turned down when I asked to be remote.
Have been sick over this all day. I thought I achieved my career goals, but they saw a shiny object and completely ripped them away. I don’t know what to do.