TLDR: I went above and beyond at work and single-handedly designed an entire tech system. Right before go-live, it has been stolen by the global team and I lost all access to it. I am crushed. How to cope?
I (21F) have been in management consulting for around a year now. Job & hours are utter BS but the pay is good (hey-gotta put food on the table!).
10 months ago I got put on a massive project which aimed to implement a tech platform. I really took a liking to this work due to my CompSci background, even going as far as actually designing the platform myself. Compared to my other client work, this was – dare I say – bearable.
Last week, we were ready to launch. I had spent ~5 out of the 10 months putting this platform together & training others on how to do it. I was truly proud of the results and I believed that I, for once, could actually help people and not hurt them by advising mass layoffs lol.
My hopes were crushed in a 30 min call from the 'global' team (i.e., the big dogs). Not only did they not care to tell us not to go forward in the 10 MONTHS we have been doing it, but they also revoked all of our access to the platform – essentially us losing all we have done. The cherry on top? They revealed they wanted to do the exact tech implementation on a global scale, but they could not figure some stuff out. How convenient that we did it for them…
Look – I already knew that 90% of corporate work is BS. I know what I do is mostly pointless. But for some reason, this one really hurts. This was my little baby project, which has been taken away in a couple of seconds. I don't know how to cope.
Dear Reddit, help a junior out – how do you deal with these situations? How do I make sure that in the future I will never get so involved in work to the point where failure would emotionally hurt me?
Thank you