I'm struggling to come to terms with this and would really value some ideas about how I can go forward.
I am past occupational pension age but not yet at the raised state pension age and need to work a few more years until the latter. In any case I enjoy my specialism and bring a lot of knowledge and experience to it. It has been my saviour during the pandemic too, especially since the things I enjoyed for leisure have been so curtailed.
Briefly, a younger colleague has made it clear for some time that they wanted my role. To be fair, our work roles can be quite fluid but we tend to have particular areas of expertise that we stick with. We gained a new boss last year who I suspect my younger colleague of working on. In a recent meeting I was literally swept aside by said colleague who tabled a plan for my area of work. Their chum and my new boss leapt on it with enthusiasm before I'd even been able to read a couple of sentences and said my younger colleague would take it over from there. It's not very different from what I was doing, if at all. I pointed this out and stood my ground as firmly as I could but my boss and a chum of my young colleague over-ruled me. The whole thing was stage-managed and was brutal. I had previously heard some rumours that my young colleague had 'issues' with me but even colleagues I regard a friends would not elaborate when I asked.
Frankly, I have felt awful since it happened. It isn't a Union matter and won't be changed so my problem is how to put my head straight. I do a good job by all the indicators we have but now feel like an imposter who has no idea and has been marginalised - self-esteem, confidence well below zero, depression and anxiety on the up. I cannot see where to go now other than to be a supporter to the less experienced until I retire. How do I handle this with dignity and restore some self-belief?
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