A chap I know professionally and have for around 12 years has just been told he has to reapply for his job or take demotion. He has spent more than 40 years with the company, works long hours is physically and mentally on his game. He has worked his way up to middle management by merit and has delivered on just about every demand ever faced. Three years ago he got a new line manager, he was some twenty years younger but was employed under a new regime of corporate and very highly paid graduates. The area managed by the long serving employee performed out of its skin, good staff relations, flexible working, efficient etc etc. this while other areas performed really badly, new appointments came and went with little progress made, Bit by bit the new guy started to pick on the success saying it was not as rosy as it appeared, it got worse culminating in work programs made behind closed doors and presented as a fait accomplis. This has now reached a head and the possibility of redundancy. I'm no Dinosaur when it comes to business but this type of behaviour smacks of unfairness and is completely unnecessary,