I may have recently pointed our to our new 'transformative' bridge-level management team that many of their fab new ideas while fab aren't new. Those of us who have been here longer have already had these ideas. The issue has been in implementing those fab ideas. Otherwise they'll just continue to be fab ideas.
Anyway, they all nodded at my sage and mildly cynical advice and then didn't invite me to any further meetings.
I might have already been over that bridge. I have tried to cross back and be much more positive about 'their' ideas, but I think I might have burnt it as I passed. This is one of the reasons1 that I do not think I will be in the third that get to stay... I suppose I could always go postal.
1. I'm also old(ish) and have a lot of unhelpful experience because I joined the company in 1978. This also makes me expensive and more difficult to regrade downwards which seems to be a strong plank in their cost cutting exercise.
It was a year or 2 back (or maybe a year or 2 more than that) that it dawned on me that since I was now in my early 60's, with 40 years in the industry, that there really was nothing new under the sun. Other than that is some technology helping you to make design designs way faster than your brain needed to say 'hold on, let me sleep on this.......'. Which is why I was often called on to apply my experience to recover a situation newly-created by the younger staff/management that we old'uns had already buggered up many years ago, sorted it then and not made the same mistake again since.
In grunt-speak, it's called experience. In management speak it's called 'humour him, we know best, and anyway he's way too expensive to use on our projects'.
Look at the impending situation as an opportunity and when they ask you for your security pass, take that as the first day of the rest of your life. I baled out of my long-term employment for other reasons, but watching the same mistakes made over and over again, by people who were paid way more than me, made me very happy when circumstances said I could afford to go.
Every cloud has a silver lining.....