Hey all. I recently started a new job and I wanted to get some input on my current situation. So, the job is a coordinator role to provide account and sales support to one of the account managers (sales reps, basically). Fair enough, and the pay is an increase to what I was making before.
However, what they failed to tell me is that the account manager I would be supporting is an older guy who is going to be semi-retiring and moving to Florida in the next 3-6 months. He will be relinquishing all but his biggest account which he will continue to manage part time, and the rest is to be given to me.
What this essentially means is that they hired me for one thing but are soon going to have me doing another. I don’t know if this was done knowingly/maliciously, or if this guy only made his plans clear to upper management in the two weeks since I started, but either way, it feels like a bait and switch. They also oddly didn’t have the guy in the initial interview I had and they had suspiciously had me train with just about everyone else in the company but him in my first two weeks despite him being the person I’d be mainly working with. Like they were trying to hide him from me.
Even if they offer me more pay and a promotion to account manager when this other guy semi-retires, the bottom line is that I signed up to be a coordinator, not a manager. The manager role is very much like a sales rep, which I’ve never had any interest in.
I’m not sure what to make of this. It feels like they trapped me into this job. If they’d been transparent about this up front, maybe I would’ve still taken the role for the pay, or maybe I would’ve turned it down and kept searching. But they didn’t give me that choice.
The problem now is that I can’t simply quit since I have bills to pay, and I cannot feasibly look for other jobs because I cannot use PTO at this new place yet. Maybe an unpaid sick day in case I go on an interview?
There’s also another account manager who does not have coordinator working for her yet. I’ve had a good working relationship with her so far, more so than the guy I’m to be assisting. When the time comes, I could request to work with her instead?
Not sure what to do. Are my concerns well-founded? I know that not every job is 100% transparent, and I’m usually willing to just suck it up and deal with it, but this is probably the most off-putting new job situation I’ve had, and I’ve never had something like this.
Anyone else ever had a situation like this happen to them?