Employee finds job listing of both of her roles split up into entry-level jobs, boss refuses to tell her anything

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• Found out my job posted both of my responsibilities as two separate entry level roles and I'm still employed here.

  

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  A confused employee sits in front of her laptop

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• Sometimes, though, you find out something that you didn't mean to. We've all experienced this at some point. You were humming along in your normal life, doing what you do, and suddenly, a piece of information is dropped along your path, and you have no choice but to trip over it. You were doing just fine before, but sometimes knowledge is a burden. You wish you could go back to a time before you knew it, but you know you can't. You must move forward, burdened with the truth, and find your way through it somehow. It's even worse when this happens at your place of employment, because then you might never feel safe again at your job. That's what happened here, to an employee who found something out that jeopardized their future. Nobody wants to feel like they're replaceable, and you certainly don't want to see your replacement coming from miles away and feeling impotent to do anything about it. We all want to feel like we have agency and power over our surroundings, and like we're needed and valued where we spend our time. But the employee in this story was quickly learning that their employer was not as loyal to them as they were in reverse. Keep scrolling to read what happened here and see what you would have done in this workplace drama.

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