Comment by goodcanadian

You are not wrong, but I would like to throw in some caveats from my experience:

"Expert" management was brought in who didn't know the industry and didn't know the company and didn't respect the people who were there, who had been eating their own dog food for years. I saw so many stupid decisions being made; I was sidelined and ignored. And then, the corporate bullshit started creeping in where management were lying to their own employees. So, yes, if my opinion stops mattering, it is an unjustified demotion, especially when the layers of management brought in over me clearly don't know WTF they are doing.