Work Shifted

I doubt anyone from Work will read this, and if they do they should only be able to guess it's me, so I guess I can rant about anything and get away with it.

I've been with the company I work for, for over 7 years, since I was 19 infact. 1 Year ago there was some reshuffling of departments, and I ended up in the IT department. While I infact do Data Analysis, alot of it could be IT related I suppose, considering my job is less "analysis" and more "make this report and I'll analise it, but i'll not tell you want i'm looking for".

Anyway, I got shifted into the IT Department, and I didn't like it. They took one look at alot of what I did, and told me I had to do all these extra things, mostly just making things a ball ache. Added on that was the great thing that since I was the "New Boy" in IT, despite working at the company longer than half the team, that the boring easy jobs could be palmed onto me. Infact the only time the IT Manager has told me i've done a brilliant job with something, was me putting up some screens in the room to split it up...

Around 2 years ago I went to the Managing Director at the time (who isn't there now) and suggested that so many people were asking for conflicting reports, that there should be a reporting team, all report requests go through the team, making sure all reports are standardised and show the same information. This could also cut down on IT work, since any new reports needed directly from IT would come specifically from this team, rather than anyone. The Managing Director thought it was a brilliant idea, but aparantly another Director was going to do something like that with someone else (the someone else left over 8 months ago now).

Now i'm being shifted again, this time from the IT team to work under the other Analyist in the company (who is more qualifed than me) and i'm wondering how boring and annoying this is going to be. They talk about being involved with things, but I still get the impression that i'm still gonna be just a random guy who makes reports without a clue whats going on.

I've fallen for the "This job sounds brilliant!" thing at work too many times, and while being in a proper Analyist team sounds brilliant, I'm going to remain skeptical until it happens.