I worked for a company for nearly a decade before leaving. Towards the end of my journey working there I started to go beyond my scope of responsibilities and taught myself programming to help manage the Excel documents that managers use to plan and track productivity. In addition to this there were many other projects I took initiative on that allowed the department to focus on production. I also was one of the most productive workers and easily finished my work while also doing the extra projects and programming.
About a year before taking on all the extra responsibility I had a negative preformance review that after showing documents of my work HR forced management to change to a positive review (another story for another time). Management after the review realized I did a lot of work and left me alone for awhile and as I was able to pick up momentum on new projects and learning programming I thought everything was going to keep going great (oh how wrong I was).
So the manager who gave me the review moved on to a different role and the company hired a new manager who we will call clueless. I also need to mention Cluless's boss who we will call Micro (for micromanage of course). So Cluless at first seemed to respect that I had experience and knowledge that kept things working smoothly for the department, however, Micro had wanted to test out some ideas where employees were forced to be in dedicated areas preforming specific task according to a schedule and had little freedom.
Now something important about the company is the work for this department wasn't a manufacturing plant but required each worker to do a variety of task to finish a product and the structure of a manufacturing facility wasn't practical. That being said many of the ideas and concepts from Micro came from leaders of manufacturing companies and not ones related to the kinds of work we were preforming.
At any rate Clueless eventually had been pressured by Micro enough where he provided a schedule and we had a meeting were everyone was told they had to stick to the schedule with no exceptions. I of course asked who would handle the other tasks but Clueless thought he would simply step in and do all the work I was doing. Keep in mind Clueless wasn't a programmer or knowledgeable about the projects I did just assumed he could do it all in addition to the many pointless task Micro gave him.
Well the time came where we started following the schedule and soon issues came up and Clueless wasn't around or wasn't able to solve. So I started stepping in to fix them but was soon called into a meeting. Apparently Clueless didn't like that I wasn't following the schedule even though he needed help fixing problems and told Micro. Micro asked me why I wasn't following the schedule and I explained that production has slowed or even halted at times because Clueless couldn't do the projects I was working on and I took up some of those to keep production going. I even provided data proving again that what I was doing allowed much more production to happen and that I was the highest current producer. Micro seemed annoyed but just told me to stay in my lane.
Now at this time nearly half the department's workers had left because they too hated Micros increaed involvement including most of my team who were very productive workers. I also need to mention that my learning programming had allowed me to job search and I was able to receive several job offers from companies paying considerably more.
So I put in my two weeks a few days after the meeting and when I told them the best way to describe it was both Micro and Clueless looked like they were watching me row away while they remained beaten and disheveled on a stranded island.
I however didn't work two weeks since I had a feeling Micro and Clueless might try something so I simply went in when they weren't there, turned in my badge and told HR today was my last day. I would hope Micro learned to trust seasoned employee's judgement more and Clueless got a clue of how the department actually worked but it seems more likely they are still blaming employees for their personal failures.