I was given a promotion, then demoted (kept the salary) for being "unfit" for the role, and now management is doing the same thing I was demoted for... What would you do in my position?

I was the senior dev and de-facto lead on my company. The guy who takes charge and makes sure the team does the job, freeing up management from having to deal with the bad hiring decisions they made.

Eventually, when I figured out that my peers were earning the same amount of money in spite of me doing way more work and taking responsibility for a lot of tasks, I asked for a promotion and a raise.

The two company owners gave me both and put me in charge of a small team. From that moment on, I stopped one of my coworkers from "offloading work onto others" and started holding team members accountable for their work. Until that moment, they were acting like people who weren't responsible for anything and the company wasn't supposed to expect anything from them because "they didn't like the job".

One team member didn't take this well and started wreaking havoc behind my back, which included regularly talking to my boss and throwing shit on me without my knowledge. I had to either do the job for her or let her ask others to do the same. I didn't go for any of these so I became a target.

When owner A asked for feedback on her, I told him the truth, and owner B intervened in private with me and told me not to do anything about her ranting (especially talking to the other guy) otherwise she risked getting fired, and then proceeded to accommodate her requests. Eventually, he disbanded my team without saying a word. I was accused of not being able to deal correctly with a team member because I brought evidence of her wrongdoing and her irresponsibility to owner B's attention, as well as being told that "I needed to learn how to deal with women, which are not the same as men", cit.

A year went by. I told owner B (the one who disbanded my team) to put me back on the dev rotation or tell me my career was over so I would move out. He accommodated my request.

My request, however, forced others to start acting without a "lead", and several lack of skills and professionalism from my coworkers arose. What was owner B solution to this? After he run out of patience, he gathered everyone incriminated and told them the exact same thing I had a year before: "each dev has to do their own job, even if they don't like working for this company. And if that means learning new skills, they better get down to it or leave".

In addition, he's now trying to find a new lead/PM to put in charge of these people, completely and totally ignoring me. And you have no idea how humiliating is being in the same room with the people who triggered my demotion (my coworker + owner B) and being told that "the company needs a lead"...

What would you guys honestly do in my situation?

EDIT: extra note, the troublesome's coworker lack of skills at one point threaten a project. I had to do 50% of it, and she had to do the other 50% (roles were assigned by my boss, not by myself). We had to add a third person to help her out, so she got relegated to 25% of the project. Because I was a lead, I was not only doing my 50% but was also coordinating other tasks on other projects, so I had to do tons of overtime.

I didn't complain, mind you, but I was openly accused during one scrum meeting by this woman of "doing too much OT, producing too much, and thus letting her behind and unable to finish her tasks in time". After this, I suggested to my boss she be re-assigned to Team X after that project, as Team X had other rhythms and things couldn't go on like this.

My team got disbanded, I got demoted, etc. When I asked to be put back into the rotation, I was put on Team X. After the owner gave his speech to the troublesome employees about pulling their weight, you know where that woman got assigned? Team X.

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