I was appointed as the IT Manager for my current company. Now suddenly my “superior” has decided to alter my job spec so that I accompany one the staff members (same level as me) on corporate visits and assist him with report writing etc. (Glorified Assistant). I used to do this about 4 years ago and have obviously progressed in my career. As a result of this new responsibility – this would take me out of the office 90% of the day. I feel that this is a demotion or worse – a lateral move into an area I have no interest in. Even though I will still have the title of IT Manager – I wont have time to do the tasks required of IT Management. He is also proposing that the current IT staff be signed over to one of our partners which means there would be no IT staff to manage – with me probably forcing all IT functions into the 10% of the day that I am here.
The answer is probably obvious but I would like the opinions of those that were in similar positions before ??