So for context, I’ve been in the non-profit sector for almost 10 years. I love working for the industry but the pay has never been great (it’s more heart work than hard work). I should premise this with the point that I never had any disciplinary actions other than a verbal coaching when I FIRST started as their receptionist and wore shorts a little too short. Completely on me and to this day will still take responsibility for that choice.
I was undervalued and unappreciated in the work I did. I ran their HR dept for 3 years with one other person who solely did recruiting; everything else I did on my own.
I took a job at a very well known moving company to try my hand at “corporate”. I put my notice in and there wasn’t even an effort to counter the new offer. Honestly I didn’t think there would be because all I ever heard was they didn’t have the money for wage increases to match COLA because of funding.
My first week at my new job I started realizing the job I was offered is in fact, not the job I am now expected to do. I decided to look for greener pastures when I came across a job posting at my previous employer.
The shittiest parts of seeing that is that it was posted only 2 days before I left (so I couldn’t train anyone to replace me), the title was changed to HR Generalist and the starting lay listed was 7k more than what I was making when I left. They even used the exact job description I wrote for them… verbatim.
I’m still in touch with a couple coworkers and they’ve kept me looped in as much as they can without breach of contract and as of writing this (almost 3 weeks exactly since I left) they still have no plan.
Icing on the cake? The 2 people they hired under me to help with HR functions are both out on medical leave without a return date. Basically, they have no one running HR and they have no one to blame but themselves for poor planning and the inability to see when they have someone beyond dedicated to their mission and values to try and get them to stay.