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It’s always so frustrating when you start a new job and, after a brief time, you realize that you were sold a line of nonsense and that the role you were promised isn’t exactly what you’re going to be doing.

It really sucks!

But we hear these kinds of stories all the time.

The guy who wrote this story is having some serious second thoughts about his new job because his manager is trying to get him to do work that he shouldn’t be doing.

Let’s take a look at what he’s dealing with.

My manager is trying to gaslight me by misquoting my contract.

“I started a new role a few months ago after being made redundant from my last one.

I’m a robotics developer within the public sector and it is an absolute disaster. Since joining, I haven’t been assigned a single project and SO many people have left since I started (red flag).

This sounds rough…

There’s basically no work to do and I genuinely don’t know why I was hired. Everyone twiddles their thumbs and comes and goes as they please.

Apparently, word of this got to our senior head of department and he’s gone to our manager and asked what we’re actually doing.

We’re now being swarmed with busy work that does nothing and have pipeline managers chasing us for things we know nothing about.

One such pipeline manager emailed me, my team and all our seniors to get an update on projects. She tagged me and asked me specifically where we were with one particular project, which I’ve already explained to her three times.

Well, here we go again…

“It needs to be designed by the solution architect and then the process design documentation needs to be created by the project manager before it comes to me to develop; I’m happy to assist from a technical standpoint where needed if required” – this is how it’s always been done, it doesn’t even come to a developer until it’s ready to be built.

MY manager responds to that email directly to me and the pipeline manager and says ‘actually, this is well in your job description to do both of those stages and also build it too’.

She then quotes my job profile and deliberately cherry picks or avoids key details of my role requirements.

This place is a mess!

She conveniently avoids the part where I’m to COLLABORATE with these roles and assist where possible, not to do it myself.

She tells me I’m to look at where things can be improved in the business with automation, whereas my contract says I’m to look at existing automations in the business to see how they can be improved – two very different and role specific tasks, I’m not a business analyst.

I told my colleague about this and he started freaking out telling me not to push back, but he’s a bit of a doormat.

I went back to my manager and clarified my role details and made out like I was pointing it out because I didn’t want my last reply to look like I was avoiding work when it isn’t even my responsibility.

They’re obviously trying to get me to do more work since we’ve had several people leave our team and not rehire.

I’m so glad I saved the job spec for this role. I think I need to look for another as this is ridiculous. Can’t wait to log on tomorrow and see what passive aggressive response I get.”

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Yeah, this is NOT COOL.

I know that job roles fluctuate a lot, but it sounds like his boss is trying to pull a fast one on him.

He should keep resisting!

He needs to find another job ASAP!