Is venting allowed? Sorry mods if you gotta do extra work deleting this.
Had a hell of a day today. Without giving too much away, I basically worked my ass off for an entire year doing something that contributed HUGELY to my very large, very multi-million dollar employer. Like the kind of thing that shaped the next 10 years of this place and will earn them megas. There was recently an evaluation that showed how incredibly valuable that thing is. But I've never actually gotten any recognition on paper for this thing. My colleagues are awesome and tell me how much they appreciate it all the time so that's dope.
Someone who's my boss's boss emailed me this week asking if they can schedule time to call me. Mysterious but I made the stupid mistake of thinking, “oh it must be about that recent evaluation and they want to say thanks/good job”. Stupid.
They never mentioned that thing I did or the recent spectacular feedback. They told me they were having trouble getting enough people to do this other thing and I needed to step up.
I'm nonconfrontational af so I said alright sounds good. And I haven't been able to shake my anger since.
Feeling incredibly undervalued and sick and tired of working myself to death so they can make millions while I make pennies in comparison.
But I don't really feel like there's anything I can do about it. I've struggled horribly with my mental health the past 2 years working here to the point of SI. I'm working through it but I think this was a wake up call for me.
Fuck the higher ups who don't even bother to get acquainted with or recognize the massive amount of work their employees do for them.