I’ve been in my current role for 4 years. I’ve always received great feedback and have mostly enjoyed the workplace culture, but recent events have made me question if I should quit.
There is one aspect of my job that I excel at more than any other and my boss knows I am passionate about. I have done so much to improve this role over the years which is quite critical to our work. Recently a lead position opened up for this role and instead of promoting me into it, my boss placed another employee from a different group into the role who I trained to do the job and only has 4 months experience in it. I am a current GS13 employee and the role is a GS14. I have time in grade but the person who got placed into the role was already a 14. My boss said the work was too critical to have a “GS13 in the role”. This felt very demeaning and I feel like I have no growth potential in my group
I’ve also not felt good lately in my work group due to all the workplace gossip. I always feel like if others are talking crap about each other and others we work with all the time, they are probably talking crap about me as well and it’s really affecting my mental health. I have a tendency to over share which is my own fault, and am now super self conscious of what others say about me. This all came to a head in a recent training week with leads in my group. I came across a document about my performance throughout the week which included unprofessional comments about me personally that had nothing to do with my performance. One note talked about perceptions that I resent the person who got placed in the GS14 role and another documented a misstep that was over exaggerated and included details that are not true. I was incredibly hurt by this. This document was clearly intended to send to my manager.
I did report the gossip to my manager and noted some of what I saw in the document. I said I felt like I’m struggling to see a path to succeed in the group currently. My manager plans to address the gossip, but now I feel like I should have not said anything and I’ve dug myself into a hole. Partially because now in retrospect I’m questioning if I’ve been a major contributor to the gossip too recently – as it’s so engrained in our workplace culture. How do I get out of this feeling like I’ve got no path forward or have screwed myself in some way? If you were in my shoes would you be looking for a new job?
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