I ran into this at a job. The manager who hired me left a few months in, and the new manager was hellbent on painting me into a corner by having me train to do

I ran into this at a job. The manager who hired me left a few months in, and the new manager was hellbent on painting me into a corner by having me train to do things I wasn't really experienced with or well suited to doing. The goal was to avoid having to spend money on an engineer by training a non-engineer - me - to do engineering work. After three years, in my last performance review with that manager, they told me to consider whether I really wanted to stay with the company in a nudge to get me to quit. I really did want to stay at the company, though, so I got on the company's internal job board and applied for a transfer to an open role in another department. After those three years without a raise above cost of living or any consideration for a promotion, within a year in the new role I got promoted and a performance raise. After two years the company gave me an award, performance bonus, and another promotion at an offsite. I'd gone so deep into the self-loathing hole with my previous manager that I didn't even know work _could_ be like that, anywhere, much less at the same company working with many of the same people. The new role wasn't even all that different - I still spent more than half my time doing the kind of work I'd expected to do when I joined the company, and even spent a significant chunk working across groups with the same people from my previous team. I was just under a different manager who, instead of trying to warp me into a different version of myself, quickly recognized what I was already good at, found what value that could bring to their team, and set me loose on it. I took off like a rocket. As a nice side effect, I didn't lose vesting on my options and benefits, even if the options ended up being worthless.