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NWR - Need Work Advice

I need some advice from all of you about work. Sorry, this might be long, trying to paint the picture.

Last year I spent most of it traveling around the world working with our global teams, idenifying gaps in training and processes and helping to pull all of the teams together. It was a BLAST! Most fun I have had at work, I was able to really connect with the teams and develop new tools that would help us collaborate and communicate more effectively. When I got back I didn't know if I would have a job, they allowed me to keep my job when I moved and work remotely but it was on a temporary basis. The director stepped in and said he liked what I was doing and wanted to keep me as more of a process analyst to continue with the global collaboration portion of what I was doing. The boss I was supposed to move under left the department two weeks after I started the new job so I was writing out my new job description and working on projects with the director.

A month into this we had some turn over and I was asked to step back into my old position and take on an account until they hired someone new to take it.

Now I have a new boss who I really like, but the responsibilities I have been handed are not what was originally discussed with the director. Instead of building a new position identifying gaps world wide and working with those teams and his managers I have been put into more of a business process analyst position where you are basically handed a process that isn't working well and create and execute a new process. This takes me completely out of working with the global teams like I had originally been excited about.

So my question is this: Do I say something about what was originally discussed? It was something I was excited to mold and create, but I worry that it will come across as "I don't like THIS job, I want to do THAT".

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Re: NWR - Need Work Advice

  • kvrunskvruns member
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    Did they decide not to hire a new person for that account? Or is this still somewhat of a temporary role?

    I think you could ask about the direction of the role since it was originally supposed to be temporary and then you could get back to the global position. I would focus more on what you were planning to do with the new role and not anything about not liking what you are doing now  

  • Absolutely discuss it. I agree with what @kvruns said; you don't have to complain about your current position in order to talk about the direction you wanted to go in (and were originally promised). 

    If you're not happy, they won't know unless you say something. And if they want to keep you (which it sounds like they definitely would) then they'll care about the fact that you're unhappy. 
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  • Thanks! I think I will bring it up. It's not that I'm totally not happy (although I would rather be working with the global teams than a system) but it's not what I was excited to be doing. 

    @kvruns they did hire someone and I finally got the account off my plate, it took a LOT longer than expected so I think there was just such a large time gap in between that when I finally started working with the new boss it was a little disconnected what I was doing and I just got swept into the team doing what they do. Doesn't help that the director is constantly traveling so he's hard to get in touch with and was the only one I was working with before. 

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