I work in a position where I'm the only one in the company that does the job that I do. I take care of a lot of specific responsibilities with no one to back me up on it. My boss left the company in March and they brought someone in to replace him, I'll call her “Kim” (she's part of the c-suite). The relationship with Kim was good at first but about a month in, she decided to change my job and had me start reporting to an employee that had little to do with my job. There was no discussion, just her telling me about all these changes and that this new person would now oversee my responsibilities, even though I've been doing them on my own for the last 3 years.
I met with Kim and told her that I thought this was disrespectful. That this isn't conducive to my position and that I'm in a manger-level position and I'm suddenly being reduced to a lower level, and there's been no discussion with me, no explanation, no feedback, I'm just getting told about all these changes that directly impact my job. She tried to backpedal a bit, but after the meeting, Kim just flat-out started being rude to me. She started making snide comments about my performance, as if I wasn't doing a good job; she was holding meetings directly impacting my work without including me; and in the meetings that I was in, she would ask opinions from other people (like call them out by name and ask what they thought) and never ask me, even when it was part of my work.
Well, I pretty quickly got another job and I put my notice in last week. Since then, I've seen Kim in the office everyday and she hasn't said a word to me, not even a hello. Since I am reporting someone else, I've been having meetings with that person to go over my job duties and she seems a bit overwhelmed. We're just getting into an annual project that I'm usually responsible for leading, but I'm handing it over to the new manager. She asked me to take care of as much as I can before I leave. I do feel bad for my new boss because she was kind of thrust into this position, she's going to have to handle it all while Kim just sits back and has someone else do all the extra work. I'm leaving for a smaller company that doesn't have a C-suite and I cannot wait. No more rude emails from execs, no more blame for things when they're the one's that f**ked up, no more watching employees ass-kiss the execs so they can move up, and no more business jargon like “just to piggyback off of…” or “let's circle back…” Ugh, I hate it all!