Just noticed this thread so late to the table. !
After a great career I was forced out of my beloved job last year fuelled by a girl who came back from maternity leave. We were only a Team of 4 plus Authors however 2 of those piled in (one who bothered me day and night with work and one who was promoted to Lead who I truly believe had never seriously been trained in working with evidence, and had been instrumental in getting rid of those who did). The girl in question is not qualified for my role and has had to go on training to actually work with the big international databases which has taken me all my career to master search strategies within them. However overnight my manager seemed to have taken a surprising vengeance towards me once she was back. I was never privy to ‘their’ team meetings so no idea what was going on within them. I was in at the beginning of evidence based medicine, won accolades in my career, and known throughout that ‘information world’ as being at the top of my tree constantly updating my qualifications and practices. It has been devastating to finish my career like that. What’s worse is I knew the ‘company’ wasn’t working to the expected standards but foolishly kept quiet hoping I would influence them to do the right thing. I can see online the medical topics haven’t been searched properly but powerless to do anything. I did ask via my right to see correspondence via Teams and mail etc. it made for sobering reading - ageist, very vindictive, untruthful and setting me up to fail without telling me what was going on. I haven’t worked since as lost my confidence but put all my energies into grandchildren. ACAS were shocked but at the end of the day no one wants to put themselves through agony.
I think jealousy may fuel incompetencies. Though there’s never been a jealous bone in my body so this is alien to me. It has affected me though terribly.
