Work in an advertising agency type environment (some details changed to protect identity) in the sales division. We're a small team but on an agressive growth drive due to private equity.
Last year on return from mat leave I struggled to balance the role with motherhood, mental health wasn't great and felt bullied by manager and her boss for a while. My performance dipped a bit and It culminated in a very nasty ambush call by one of the directors basically threatening to sack me and mocking my sales abilities.
Fast forward a year and things have stabilised and I'm back on track with performance etc and we've recently hired two new senior managers to help drive even more sales and growth.
These hires were announced to much PR fanfare and billed across the company as much needed talent etc.
I've ended up training them a lot and picking up a lot of the Slack as they learn but both are struggling in their own ways and one in particular doesn't seem good enough and has made bad mistakes and doesnt seem to grasp the basics. We're now 3-4 months in and they still have to be hand held for almost everything and can't do certain things solo as 'not ready yet'. They're getting a very easy ride but I was nearly sacked for much less.
These are senior managers, on at least 10k more than me (baseline). I'm picking up the slack right left and centre but externally we've positioned them as incredibly capable/ senior/ strategic/ commercially astute etc.
I'm feeling so resentful and used. I've given official feedback but it's not my call on what happens to them. I've also applied for various jobs over past 6 months but market is dire so it's not an easy option.
Not sure what I'm looking for from this thread, maybe just validation that inbu and views from others who have been in this situation.
I felt so upset and broken last year but I clawed it back and have given effort etc, now seeing incompetent people announced and bigged up so much causes me so much anger.