Not sure if this is the right sub, but was curious if this is a normal occurrence. I have been co-leading a huge system wide project for nearly seven months. Many people involved, but I’ve been a key player throughout. I was asked to develop a project/abstract out of the work which I wrote and developed extensively. Hours and hours of work. It got accepted as a podium AND poster presentation at a conference and I wrote a second abstract for another larger conference per their request. Today I was informed by the big wigs that they will take it from here and be the speakers on all presentations and have hired EXTERNAL people to write the presentation, make the poster and rewrite the second abstract. I’m basically no longer needed.
Am I silly to have thought they would let me continue to lead and develop and maybe even present? I am a project manager (PHD-C) and they are the execs. Maybe their just wasn’t tile clarity. Mind you NONE of this is part of my actual job.
TLDR: Execs took my contributions to a huge project and are presenting it and basically taking it over after I’ve gotten it to conferences