I didn’t realize it at first, but she wasn’t a fan of PR – or me. My first hint was that she decided that me and a selection of others in the department should do a 360 review. That would be fine, but it wasn’t part of the company’s review policy.
I found myself having to compete against agency peers on client teams and was often excluded from internal client meetings. This was not what I expected from the ‘pitch’, and I noticed other, more junior staff, being treated in the same way.