They hired me based on one description and the actual job is totally different. All those interviews and assessments were basically irrelevant. I'm doing work that wasn't even mentioned. If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have accepted the job in the first place.
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It took me a while to realize I had been bait-and-switched too. At first it seemed like just the turmoil of a reorg that I happened to get hired into. But after a while you realize the reorg wasn't a one-off and there always another reorg coming, and the minions who get shuffled around just have to accept whatever random work lands on their plate.
Bait and switch happens so often leadership really make themselves hard to trust.
There's a commodity mindset, when there's reorg they're just putting butts in seats. A lot of wasted talent putting people in positions to fail.
The hiring manager (your boss or boss's boss) likely signed off on the role and job description. ... So in addition to the bait n switch, you likely have that awesome USAA leadership to deal with in your immediate org.
Same thing happened to me. A week after I started a new role, my director shuffled roles on the team and I got put into a completely different role. I was unhappy. Went to HR too and they said nothing could be done. Was put on a pip 5 months later.
dont walk RUN lol I was hired during covid after 12 years at one of the BIG 3 banks since I was promisded full remote and a bunch of other things that never happened literally lost my seniority and position to come to this chithole. Worst mistake of my career!
I felt this. 13 months in I’m in a job family I didn’t even apply for, in a whole new CoSA and new boss. And they wonder why I’m not great at this job. I didn’t apply for this. I never would have applied for this job. I can smell the PIP being written already
Run, just run. It won’t get better
That su-ks.
So start looking for another job.
But given that you are already here it wouldn't hurt to look internally too. Who knows, you might find your way to a team where you can do the work you wanted to do in the first place. Maybe.
Good luck whatever you do.