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Management have dropped it on me but not told me they have.

EssexGirl
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I work with one other person who is my manager. If my manager is not there then I have to cover their work & a temp does mine. We have recently been closed for a full refurbishment & have been working elsewhere for the same company.
The branch is now about to re-open in a different guise yet offering the same services and some new ones. There is a lot of uncertainty over the running of the branch because other departments will be moving in, and procedures etc will have changed. We have always had full responsibility for the building. We have asked who will have overall responsibility for the building but no-one from a senior manager team will give us any straight answers.
My manager (who is on annual leave for a week or so and will not be there for opening day) dropped a bombshell that they have handed in their notice and their manager should receive it the next day. This was a week ago. So I'm guessing there are only 3 weeks left for my manager to work through their notice.
I spent some time with a senior manager the other day, who didn't mention my manager at all. So I've not been "officially" told about the resignation.
I'm beyond cross that not only will I have to be in charge on what is likely to be a very busy day and a busy few weeks, with no manager present, no-one has deemed it important enough to tell me that I won't have a manager in 3 weeks!! This means everything and more will probably land in my lap.

It's not that I can't do it, I can and I have, they know that I have managed bigger places before. But when I applied for this position I CHOSE not to have a managerial role. It was significant drop in wages for me, but worth it. There isn't anyone they could temporarily drop into the role and due to procedure, it will likely take months to recruit a replacement. I feel very much taken for granted and left out of the loop.

Am I right to be annoyed? I feel if I'm staying in that role for any amount of time then I should at least be paid for it on the salary of my soon to be ex manager.

Any insight/advice welcome :)

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  • getmore4less
    getmore4less Posts: 46,882 Forumite
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    edited 5 May 2016 pm31 1:28PM
    Stop assuming you will be in charge and acting like a manager if you don't want to be one, just turn up report to whoever is in charge on the day.

    If nobody has planned anything then tough.

    Stop asking question about the building.
  • Tiddlywinks
    Tiddlywinks Posts: 5,777 Forumite
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    You either want to be a management grade and so consulted along the way or you want to be one of the staff who just do what they are asked to do.

    If they haven't told you then assume you don't need to know - and then act accordingly.
    :hello:
  • EssexGirl
    EssexGirl Posts: 977 Forumite
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    Stop assuming you will be in charge and acting like a manager if you don't want to be one, just turn up report to whoever is in charge on the day.

    If nobody has planned anything then tough.

    Stop asking question about the building.

    That's where the problem lies.... If there isn't a manager I HAVE to be in charge, therefore I need to know what is going on.
  • sangie595
    sangie595 Posts: 6,092 Forumite
    Well in the first place they haven't yet told you that you will be managing. Perhaps they will bring in someone else. And secondly, if it is your job to deputise when there is no manager in, then it is your job. Why would they pay you more to do something that is already your job? I assume it doesn't say that you only deputise for a short period of time?

    So basically, no, you don't have a right to be annoyed. You chose not to be a manager, and so they aren't treating you like one. You can't have it both ways.
  • k3lvc
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    EssexGirl wrote: »
    That's where the problem lies.... If there isn't a manager I HAVE to be in charge, therefore I need to know what is going on.


    Why ??


    You turn up at the time you normally would, you do what you'd normally do and you go home when you normally would.


    If anyone questions you then you escalate to your Senior Manager or if you're uncertain yourself then on the day you ask them ?


    I also second Tiddlywinks view - you're staff now so you need to act like it
  • pmduk
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    Book leave for that week
  • EssexGirl
    EssexGirl Posts: 977 Forumite
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    k3lvc wrote: »
    Why ??


    You turn up at the time you normally would, you do what you'd normally do and you go home when you normally would.


    If anyone questions you then you escalate to your Senior Manager or if you're uncertain yourself then on the day you ask them ?


    I also second Tiddlywinks view - you're staff now so you need to act like it

    It's in my JD to deputise if manager not there. This includes all of the manager's duties.
  • KiKi
    KiKi Posts: 5,381 Forumite
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    I can see that you feel annoyed if you know that the expectation is that you'll manage it.

    However, stop waiting to be told and be proactive and ask! I don't understand why you feel you need to be 'officially' told by your senior manager. Your line manager has told you they're leaving. It's entirely possible that your LM said to your SM "Don't worry, Essexgirl knows it's her role to pick things up when I'm not there" and so SM has made an assumption that LM has had this conversation with you.

    The whole communication side might not have been handled very well, I can see that. But it's two way. Don't wait to be lumbered with work if that's what you think will happen - go and ask what will happen, then IF it seems to be that they think you'll take the role on, then you have a different conversation about that.

    But waiting for the worst and being peed off about it isn't going to help. ;)

    KiKi
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  • k3lvc
    k3lvc Posts: 4,174 Forumite
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    EssexGirl wrote: »
    It's in my JD to deputise if manager not there. This includes all of the manager's duties.


    On an open ended basis ?? If this is genuinely the case then


    a) you probably should have discussed your discomfort with having this in your JD before now - or at least a level of recompense for anything over x days per year to cover events such as this


    b) you need to get onto the front foot here and explain your feelings/issues behind it
  • For all you know they have someone lined up to take over. Ask someone. If they have made plans which don't include you, there's no reason they should have told you about them.

    If you find they have made plans that do include you without telling you, then get annoyed.
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