I cant take this anymore. How do I deal with exploitation?
TLDR: Unresponsive HR re my supposed “promotion”. My bosses appear to be stringing me along. Been on this quiet promotion for months now bc they told me it arrive by October. Thinking of leaving for good.
Last August I had an interview for a “promotion” which they said will just be a change on title with salary increase since I’ve doing this role for months now anyway. They told me I just need time to gain experience to qualify for an interview for the role. My contract was supposed to end on that same month so they extended me for another month as they work with the HR in processing the upgrade. Guess what, it's October already and we’re already a week beyond the extension contract I signed! No sign of an offer or a new contract. Instead, I received another extension of my current role on just this week! It’s dated until Feb of next year.
I expressed my intention not to sign another extension for an old role if they will not be clear about their processing timelines! Honestly, I’ve been meaning to leave for a while now until I received hope through this promotion. I’ve thought I might consider staying if the offer is great.
But here’s another big issue for me, my manager aka overseer and our supervisor aka budget owner (yes two people! grr) are asking me to wait it out while they iron things out with HR & Finance. They still invite me in meetings and requests me to work with them even though they know my issues aren’t settled yet! I already said I don't want to get involved yet especially if it calls for duty travels but they don't seem to care at all. They just clearly want to get things done!
Over this weekend, I even received a dozen of emails tagging me to do their stupid presentation for their stupid event. They just passed all the presentations to me. They can't even articulate properly what they want to present in this stupid thing.
I honestly thought my co-workers were my my friends but I realized I only had friendly co-workers! I handled in 2 projects, worked overtime and I even managed a lot of people only to feel disrespected like this.
My manager pretends to be on my side, only showing me screenshots of his efforts to talk to HR. However it is obvious he’s hiding the responses of the top management. Kinda have a gut feeling that it's negative and their against my promotion. But he knows I will not stay if I don’t get this promotion.
This last quarter is expected to be the most hectic and they can't afford to lose any more people. I know it because I’ve been covering up for people who already left. I used to care until they gave me shit this month. This is really my last straw. I gave them too many chances already.