I start work early, finish late, run successful projects, and start and manage additional work to assist the organisation on my own initiative.  Yet I sit in meetings and make suggestions and they are ignored or I'm belittled: Suggestions which are based on current feedback, examples of it succeeding in other spaces, and almost 10years experience, while the person criticising them does not have qualifications in the field or experience of running the current or similar projects.  And more than once when I've asked why we should go with their suggestion instead, the answer is "because I say so".  There are lazy people, and there are entitled people, but I'm sick of “leaders” shutting down alternative opinions, preventing innovative work, and belittling great employees just because they have the power to do so.  Nomatter's point is that in most workplaces respect isn't earned, so let’s stop pretending that’s the case and stop making excuses for poor leadership