Changed my name for this.
I’m not young by any stretch of the imagination (mid-50s) but today I felt like I was treated like a junior who knows nothing.
I’ll try to keep it short.
I’ve been in my job 9 months. I am on a low grade because I moved from HE to NHS. I’m not a qualified clinician. In HE I worked in student support, had a lot of experience and was respected for my knowledge, experience and working practices.
Today, in a (hybrid) team meeting, where I was online, a colleague brought up an issue about a patient being a university student. I raised a virtual hand to offer some information but another colleague in the room started to answer, so I stayed quiet.
My colleague’s answer was purely based on her experience this year of managing her DC’s entry to university.
Of course this is helpful up to a point, but she was extrapolating what happened at this one university to what happens in general.
In fact some of what she was saying was downright wrong.
I tried a number of times to join in but she would not give way. So the questioner was left with incorrect answers.
I felt quite humiliated and that my genuine knowledge (it was exactly the sort of query I dealt with in my old job) was downplayed.
I suppose my question is (as well as just wanting a moan), should I let the colleague requiring the information know that what she’s been told is wrong and there’s actually a lot more involved?
(I know it sounds trivial. I’m feeling really wound up about it though).