Anyone ever have your job duties change drastically? [View all]

[alarimer]

I'm experiencing this right now.

My official title is Marine Fisheries Biologist 1. And for almost 2 years now, I have been doing the duties of a Marine Bio. 2, essentially. The job was advertised as a 1, for whatever reason and they filled it as such, even knowing that these other things (that made it a 2, really) were coming down the pike.

Now, they hired for another position at the 2 level, without realizing that the position was really only a 1. Many of the duties had gone to other places while the position was vacant. I'm sorry if this is confusing. I'm trying to explain as best I can so I can get the right advice.

Now that they have the new person in place, they want to switch our jobs. I have been doing the work of a Bio 2 (without the compensation) so this feels like a real slap in the face. My boss has assured me that it is not for performance reasons. Still I was shocked and upset to hear this. First off, I'm concerned that the new job duties will not challenge me enough, being more clerical in nature and less analytical. Plus, I have actually done the thing that makes my current job a Bio 2, so it strikes me as deeply unfair to then hand it over to someone else. Someone, I might add, who has never actually done what I have been doing for the last year and a half.

I don't actually know what to do right now. I'm inclined to start looking immediately for another job. I'm trying to be professional about this, but I am not feeling good about this at all.