Ongoing crap

About 2 years ago, my boss quit his job and moved to a new company. Before leaving, my boss specified that I should be the one to take his job, that nobody else would understand it. I was given most of his work, all of the international accounting. People in the department complained that I got his work in spite of the fact that they didn't want it and didn't know how to do it.

It was a huge amount of work that I'd never done and for which I received no training. It was all related to intercompany transfers and foreign exchange. If this work was not done correctly and on time, my company could not file their financial statements correctly and on time. I learned on the job. I did it right and I did it on time in spite of the lack of training and the fact that I was still doing my old job at the same time.

I got no raise and no promotion for doing this, which was by all accounts a monumental feat. People expected me to fail. I disappointed them.

They said that they were going to hire a new person who would be taking some of my work off my hands to get my workload down to that of one person. That never happened.

A few months after I took on my boss's job, we hired a new person. He took one account reconciliation off my hands, but that was it. The rest of what he took on was offloading work from a woman who was going to be taking maternity leave. She went on leave and came back, but she never took back any of the work that was offloaded from her.

At the end of last year, my new boss left the company. She arranged for me to move into her old window office. Everyone had a fit. They went en masse to the tax director to complain, and he went to the controller on behalf of everyone else to say that I shouldn't be allowed to have the office. The controller told them to get over it and that it was the right thing to do. You see, none of them wanted the office, but they didn't want me to have it, either. See a pattern here?

I've "fixed" most of the processes I handle and pared down the work from a two-person job to a one-person job, automating a huge number of things that used to be manual. I rarely make mistakes, and the rework that I end up doing is usually because I'm fixing someone else's errors.

It is now two years later and I still haven't gotten a raise or a promotion. I didn't get a raise the year I took on the job, and last year they "didn't give raises" - except that I know they did give them to some people. They seem to forget that I have access to that information. In spite of a stellar performance review, I got nothing.

Now, the guy that they hired to take some of my work (and who never did, through no fault of his own) has been promoted to an analyst position (which they never mentioned to me). I'll be taking work on from him, probably including what I offloaded to him a year and a half ago. They aren't hiring a replacement for him.

I was told that this could work out to my benefit, but what I see happening is exactly what happened two years ago - a ton of work will get dumped on me and I won't be compensated for it, and my co-workers will still hate me and treat me like garbage no matter what I do.

I'm a little tired of this crap.