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A while ago my mate found himself in the position of becoming the sole manager of 22 staff as his co-manager was accepting redundancy. There was a lot of restructuring to be done before this other chap left and my mates managers led him by the nose with talk of meetings to discuss his new job title and salary etc etc while getting him to set the scene for the future. Being a trusting chap my mate did as was required and set the scene for himself to be the sole department manager with all the extra stuff that goes with it. He was a tad concerned that several meeting dates were postponed but carried on regardless. Then last week the big meeting to discuss and formalise his new role took place. And guess what? My mate was shafted! His managers were amazed that he actually thought his role would change but they offered to review his role through the existing procedures. This procedure starts only in August, lasts 12 months and they can only award 2% increase in salary afterwards! Providing of course my mate works his bollox off for 18 months while being constantly assessed. And 2% equals about 600 quid! And his job title cant change because "HR say it cant"
Needless to say my mate is not a happy bunny!
So apart from the moral of this story being to ensure you get everything in writing up front, what should my mate do now and how do I cheer him up!
Thanks
P
You can´t do to much for a good firm and you can´t do enough for a bad bastard!
Don't really understand that tbh - he's doubled the number of direct reports and his role hasn't changed? It's self-evident that it has.
Anyhow, sounds like all he can do is get the cv updated and start to actively look for another job from within this one. Maybe it will be a string to his bow if he can show he's successfully managing a large team.
I think he shouldn't have assumed (even if he was told) that he would be promoted. I made the same mistake, actually the circumstance were slightly different but ended up be led into thinking that I would get promoted but the company strung me along for months before they decided that they would advertise for the position.
Unless written in letter or email, a promise is as much worth as the paper its written on!.
get him to find another job so he can hand his notice in as I wouldn;t want to work for people who treat me like a mug.
hope he's ok
Yeah get the CV updated, and use the episode as a demonstration of his proffessionalism and career focus. "They gave me no extra money, but I knew it was good experience and I did the job perfectly blah blah"