Manager decides to counter offer a position offered to me, but what are her real motives?
I applied for a role in a different department. People in that department were really excited. They put in a good word for me. They think very highly of me. The manager in that department reached out to my manager to let her know that I applied. I am currently in an administrative role. I was told five years ago that my current role would transition into a management role. And so I took on more task and more duties. I was told OK next year it will transition into management role and it never came into fruition and then I would be told the same thing again it wouldnt happen. According to my boss, it never happened because HR didn’t see it necessary to transition my role into a management role.
Now the role that I’m applying for is also an administrative role. It’s just a little bit higher. So my manager decided to go to HR and ask if my role could be transitioned into a management role HR has approved it now and so now that I’ve been offered a new role my manager came to me and said listen your current role is going to transition to a management role and I want to offer you the opportunity first to see if you would like to stay and it would pay more than the other job in the other department. Now over the past five years I’ve seen people around me progress and transitioned into supervisors management. I will admit I became a little resentful and discouraged. From a) not given what i was promised over and over b) i trained newly hired managers. I just can’t believe that now that I found a role to transition to now this offer is presented to me. Im not sure if theres is an alterior motive or some kind of trick. It just gives me a really weird gut feeling. Is there an anterior motive lurking or what is the catch?
The role im currently in is very complex requires a lot of critical thinking and problem solving. And it has new projects coming down the pipeline and im already managing 2 warehouses and my boss has become very authoritative and not very understanding of the complexities to have an open mind about somethings i need support in. i have made it to where the burdens of my role is not felt by anyone else and/or the organization.
I’ve felt here lately like the door is slammed in my face sort of speak. When I ask her for support or when I go to her for something she doesn’t listen at all and she just rattles off what she thinks is a solution but she has absolutely no clue what she is talking. Or sometimes I feel like she is just going around in circles not really trying to listen to understand.