Nos, years ago at the Home Depot there was a rogue manager who decided he had to put me in my place because of a situation between me and another employee that he had history with and was very fond of personally.
So, he took away my somewhat "prestigious" position, if such a thing can exist in a place like the Home "Despot", but anyway, he created a new position for me to humiliate me and possibly to get me to quit, I don't know.
He made me the new "Greeter" and parking lot "watcher". Now imagine that! I was supposed to stand all day in the doorway in front of the store and hand out catalogs to incoming customers and greet them, and at the same time, watch to see where the employees parked!
He felt he could get away with this because in our state at the time there was a lot of emphasis on cleaning the air and relieving gridlock through ridesharing, and I was the in-store rep for that. Part of the incentive program for this was to give preferred parking to the employees who participated in the ridesharing.
Well, it was summer and it was very hard on me to stand in the heat 8 hours a day, not to mention boring; but I decided, just like you, to show him! So I would smile and greet and dance a little and hum and sing in the doorway, much to the customers' delight; and one day, the new store manager-to-be came to scope out his soon-to-be-store, and he saw me doing this unheard-of job, and being very pleasant about it. He was incognito, but he asked me what my "position" was, and I told him, "I'm the greeter."
So inside he goes and sees an former friend/co-assistant manager from their earlier days together in a store from a different region, and SHE gave him the real scoop on what was going on and why I had been assigned this punishment duty.
I was immediately promoted to Customer Service Manager with a raise of $2.50 per hour!
So hang in there and keep doing what you're doing! I don't know what the labor laws are like in your area, but they're pretty strict here.
