Do I have the right to be as upset as I am or is it pregnancy.
I started my current job in April of last year. This lab was not fully functional and part of my job was to help them establish how things would work.
Organize processes & help them to build our new lab. This company is building a new quality/commercial lab. This is something I was made aware of before starting. In June of last year we pick up how much testing and work we were doing.
So they had part-time helpers in the lab. When introduced around the company and to other companies, I was introduced as the lab mgr. My lab coats say lab mgr. They took me out of Singapore to other labs to get ideas for the new lab I was called lab mgr.
I had to wait until June of this year for me to get my raise, due to it being when our reviews are company-wide. I never pressed for an official title change I thought would come with the new lab.
In the last four months We have two new employees. They just graduated university. So, here is where my hormones may be affecting my thoughts. I have pestered my boss for my review, partly because of the raise he said I would get,(He said significant raise)I wanted to know how I was doing, and to ask about my title change. A couple weeks before he submitted it, late. He let me know they hired a lab mgr. He said I still would have a big roll in the lab, that I deserve it and have worked very hard and they see that. He said she would be taking his roll, but mgr. title. So I asked him if I then would be the assistant mgr.?
He said yes. That changed again when he finally submitted my review. (I scored very high with no bad remarks) My raise was definitely not significant more like an average company wide raise. He let me know my title would be lab supervisor. It took me awhile to readjust. My new “office and title” were taken. People within the company kept asking me if I am leaving after having my baby. Or if I had been demoted like I had done something wrong. Even though I keep being told how “great” I am running the lab.
I ask for a bigger raise. I get it no problem. Just to then find out my title will no longer be lab supervisor, or assistant mgr, or mgr. Now I am a team lead. This position they expect the other girls, the ones I have been teaching and training and managing will acquire within the year due to their degrees. (I never completed mine, they knew this hiring me, and promising me the lab mgr. position)
Now, I get the feeling from my new boss that I will never get that opportunity due to my lack of my degree. I have plenty of lab experience, I have been the one running this lab for over a year, working my butt off. Working more hours then asked. Even though I took this job to have more time with my family. I feel like it’s all being taken from me. I am not sure if it’s hormones or ego or a mix of both.
I loved this company and part of me really still does. However, I can’t help but feel like I am getting walked all over.