I'll do my quick rant here and you can all ignore if you like haha.
So when I applied for this job (medical secretary), I applied for 3 others jobs at the time. I had just moved further away from my current place of work so needed somewhere closer to home. I loved my old job but the travelling was too much.
Anyway, I must have an impressive CV and interview skills as I got all 3 of the jobs I went for. I then had to weigh up the best options for me. I picked this job because they understood my ambition and the fact that I wanted to climb the career ladder into a GP Practice Manager or similar role and not just be a secretary forever. I have a very ambitious mind and I hate to be stuck doing the same thing for too long. They understood that and played on that.
I took the job here because I was offered that after 6 months to a year they would review my job and start training me up to be Practice Manager, well take off some of the workload from the current Practice Manager, therefore giving me vital experience to eventually take on the job, or go somewhere else where that job is advertised. They also said they would review my pay every 6 months. I thought, wow this is amazing, they are going to actually help me get my foot in the door.
Today, I come into work and I'm told by my colleague (she's lovely and more than aware of my ambitions). That she has out of the blue been offered a desk in the managers office, with more pay and to take on some of the Practice Manager's workload ... Hold on a second, isn't that exactly what I was offered when I took the job?! Isn't that the exact reason why I took the job here and not the other 2?? Hmmm... THINK SO!!!
My colleague said she wasn't really given much choice, she doesn't wanna sit in the manger's office or take on the extra stress (she is 57 and wants an easy work life I think). But the extra money would help her. She said sorry to me because she knew that's the exact reason why I came here and there's been no secret about that. She also said that nobody else knows this and she's told me out of courtesy, but it is a secret at the moment.
So I can't help but think that because I'm going maternity leave, they have decided to give that job to someone else. When I was promised that when I came to work here. I haven't got it in writing, have checked over my contract. In my contract also it says a yearly pay review!!! I'm so angry!! You don't realise discrepancies in your contract until you need the information!
I will NOT be coming back here after my maternity leave. I am happy to sit in Tesco for a while (done it before and actually loved it) for the money after my maternity pay is up, until a job comes up that I want.
Everything I joined this place for has been a lie. I thought I was an NHS employee, hence why I moved here whilst TTC because I thought I'd get the NHS Maternity Pay - turns out I don't. I came here on the promise of furthering my career and now I'm pregnant this has been given to someone else.
I hate this place, I am so angry and I can't even say anything yet because I'm not even supposed to know!!!
OH is actually on board and told me I'm not coming back here after maternity because they've shown me no loyalty and their word means nothing. "fuck them" so he says. So I will literally fuck them and their stupid fucking job, when I pretend I'm coming back and then hand my notice in.
Sorry, I'm so so so sorry that I keep bringing shit on here. But you're all so helpful and I feel much better having just typed it out.
x
