Since I got back I have been put on a secondment with another team for 4 days a week doing work that is urgently needed but way below my pay grade, and would have been a fantastic opportunity for one of the entry level employees. The woman hired to cover me oversaw creating the page that is to host all this work based on the plans and text that I left her, (webpages are easy to make, we have a team that does it for us, she just had to make sure they followed my instructions) and the creation of the remaining videos (again just making sure the videographers stuck to me briefs), however she did each of them wrong, missing the main point and strategy entirely (not her fault, my manager was fully briefed and should have guided her), but my point is the small amount that she did do had to be adjusted when I got back.
Then I went on Mat Leave for 18 weeks, the minimum time my company offers. It was a monumental effort from me, having to pitch and get approval at every point, and I got to very near launch time, with almost everything ready to go. I spent months more after that developing content with graphic designers and videographers, creating plans for the webpages and writing out all the text for them, getting each approved by the various higher ups. I spent months and months researching all the content, working to get the project off the ground and through all the office red tape. This project is fairly ground breaking for my team, I won't bore you with details but for context it should get a lot of attention and respect from the corporate overlords, it has the potential to bring in millions in revenue over the next few years. I work as a marketing exec and for over a year before I left for maternity leave I was working on a project that was my idea, that I had pitched to higher ups and stakeholders to get approval.
#BABY CHANGE MAT COVER PROFESSIONAL#
TL:DR I've not had a major, career defining project returned to me after maternity leave and the cover woman is getting all the credit, affecting my career and professional reputation. So I need an unreasonable check, not sure if this is the right place but it's about returning to work after mat leave, and feeling like I've been unfairly treated, so maybe? Here goes (btw I'm new so not up to speed with all your acronyms and lingo, sorry!)