Am I being pushed out?
I have a situation. I joined this company a little over 2 years ago. When I joined the team was still being set up, they didn't have a reporting structure including documentations and I partnered with marketing to make that. I performed extremely well apart from that. Contributed to the revenue consistently since my projects were completed quickly and well ahead of schedule. At one point I was the only one left in my team because the 3 people who were there quit one by one. One had been there longer and quit before I hit my 1st year. Then 2 more joined and they quit within the first 7 mos in the job.
Given my performance and the fact that I am the most tenured employee in the team, I asked management for career development (promotion on the job title, raise) because they brought on people with far less experience and lower results and gave them all the same pay, same title that I had. I was ok with that set up before as I saw the seniority of the people in my team. But this next group of people they brought in were different in quality and experience that having the same salary band and title, didn't sit right with me. I didn't demand a title change or a pay rise. I laid out the numbers and I said I am already performing at the level I am asking for. And I am committed in my growth there. In other businesses I worked for, asking for a promotion or career development is equated to committment.
Since then, my Director had to bat for me many times. But upper management started giving me the cold shoulder. There were several instances when they didnt want to recognise my performance anymore. Bigger projects were given to someone 10 years my junior with far less experience. And to add to all this, I heard they are hiring a new team member and the most junior person is the one doing the interviews even if she has very little experience and shes only been here a little over 6 mos. The upper management scheduled a catch up with everyone in the business because 3 top performers quit and they cancelled their one on one with me and never rescheduled. I'm working on a project with one of the upper management and he is not responsive at all which affects how I operate on the project.
I feel I'm getting pushed out and gaslighted. What do you all think? Have you ever encountered this before?