(1) DO remind yourself that like you, your co-workers clearly see why this new employee got her job and the title you coveted. They may pretend that they don't see it, but they know.
There was another person affected by this move, and she is p***ed. Her history is that she was here a year, given her job because she was a friend, moved, came back, and was given her job back out of 'respect', and the fact that we could use someone, and bringing someone familiar back into the fold, was an easy decision. She has been acting up over another supervisor clamping down on process so she sort of scr*wed herself since she applied for the same position, and an earlier one she would have been qualified for, that PYT got. Mind you this person is a PYT as well.
Btw I don't covet the title. All I've asked for is a title that is reflective of what I do. PYTs can ask and in a heart beat, have it done. I have to struggle for 'correct description'. Possibly it's the carrot I am never going to have or he'll allow me to have. Mind you, I don't ask that often. I'm not stupid.
(2) DO remind yourself that there is no logical reason to be less happy with your pay and benefits package and duties than you were before this woman was given the job.
I am happy to have a job. I am happy to have a job. Click my heels three times. That doesn't mean it doesn't sting when you see cr@p like this happen. I hate when it happens to other people, not just myself.
(3) DO remind yourself that life isn't fair, and yet we can eventually overcome all of it and reach ER (when none of the workplace baloney matters to any great extent any more).
You're right, but it makes it hell to save when you can't get ahead. I do a pretty darn good job, but I want to do more.