OK - I really shouldn't be concerned with this, but I feel compelled to be because it involves my career and I need to hear some perspectives on jealously.
I had worked at a university for five years. The pay was not good, but I was one of the highest paid individuals in my department. I worked with a lot of communication guys who graduated from Ivy league and pricey private schools were making less money than me. So, these were guys with great educations making $45K per year at age 30...and I think they were a little bitter on where they were at in their careers.
While at my job, I won several awards for my work and got some pretty good buzz on some of the projects I built. I got a title change and a small raise in my final year. I eventually ended up leaving this job and scoring this amazing new job with a big company that essentially doubled my salary.
So, I noticed something recently that really irked me. We had an online directory at my old job with our profiles on it. It seems someone from our staff and went back and changed my title back to the title I had when I first started - essentially publicly demoting me despite the fact I didn't work there anymore.
I have a pretty good idea as to who the individual is. I have no clue why he felt inspired to dig up my old profile and make these edits.
When we would be build projects, he would leave me out of the credits when I did substantial work, but would credit interns who practically did nothing. I also caught an email exchange between him and our department head where he was throwing me under the bus for something completely trivial.
I never called him out on it, but should have.
I wanted to talk to the department head about this individual, but unfortunately they golf together. So, I wasn't going to get anywhere with this situation.
So now, I'm gone. And I've left that place for greener pastures.
I want to get a few takes from the guys here. I imagine as I continue to move forward in my career, there will be more who are jealous of what I'm able to achieve. I work extremely hard and have great passion for what I do - so it bums me out to see people take me down when they instead should be joining me in trying to do great things.
So, how have you dealt with jealous co-workers? Or people who feel the need to bring you down?
I had worked at a university for five years. The pay was not good, but I was one of the highest paid individuals in my department. I worked with a lot of communication guys who graduated from Ivy league and pricey private schools were making less money than me. So, these were guys with great educations making $45K per year at age 30...and I think they were a little bitter on where they were at in their careers.
While at my job, I won several awards for my work and got some pretty good buzz on some of the projects I built. I got a title change and a small raise in my final year. I eventually ended up leaving this job and scoring this amazing new job with a big company that essentially doubled my salary.
So, I noticed something recently that really irked me. We had an online directory at my old job with our profiles on it. It seems someone from our staff and went back and changed my title back to the title I had when I first started - essentially publicly demoting me despite the fact I didn't work there anymore.
I have a pretty good idea as to who the individual is. I have no clue why he felt inspired to dig up my old profile and make these edits.
When we would be build projects, he would leave me out of the credits when I did substantial work, but would credit interns who practically did nothing. I also caught an email exchange between him and our department head where he was throwing me under the bus for something completely trivial.
I never called him out on it, but should have.
I wanted to talk to the department head about this individual, but unfortunately they golf together. So, I wasn't going to get anywhere with this situation.
So now, I'm gone. And I've left that place for greener pastures.
I want to get a few takes from the guys here. I imagine as I continue to move forward in my career, there will be more who are jealous of what I'm able to achieve. I work extremely hard and have great passion for what I do - so it bums me out to see people take me down when they instead should be joining me in trying to do great things.
So, how have you dealt with jealous co-workers? Or people who feel the need to bring you down?
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