Where I work, in my department we have three individuals on the east coast, several company wide, and everyone is remote. My department is also a hierarchy, and I’m at lowest level on the list. So let’s call myself T3, the highest level guy T1 and mid level T2.

Personality wise, I am pretty extroverted. In my firm people think of me as a social butterfly. I think I can do more, but that’s not the point. I started recently, and we are expanding our presence on the east coast. In the earlier months, I was working off of tasks I was getting from corporate, but I have started attracting clients, and now they are reaching out to me directly.

I have to report everything I work on to T1. The new work I brought in, I reported to T1 and he immediately delegated those to T2 and basically made me invisible to the client. To me he said to keep working on tasks coming from corporate. This is not first time when this has happened. None of us have a bad relationship with each other. On one hand they commend that I am bringing work, but on the other they just take it away from me. If I want to expand my group here, I wouldn’t be able to if things continue like this.

I feel I’m doing the legwork to market my department, but not getting the chance to follow thru with the clients and big picture, I foresee T2 getting his chance to shine. Maybe I’m over thinking, but I am feeling this deeply. I feel I got depressed this week due to the way things happened.

My theory here is T1 promoted T2, and T2 hasn’t really delivered any groundbreaking performance. To save himself the embarrassment of choosing T2, T1 is helping him out.

I am young and I know more opportunities will come my way. And I will be able to capitalize at some point. Maybe this is not something I should lose my sleep over. But how should I just stop feeling what I’m feeling and snap out of it? Those who work in corporate, and don’t give me a submissive response, how have you maneuvered around situations where you were on the losing side of the bias?