People sometimes debate whether or not the universe is just. But regardless of where you stand on the issue, I think we all can agree that the corporate world is not.
Clinician and Redditor u/Head_Lizard recently made a post on the subreddit r/antiwork that supports this notion and sheds light on the often unspoken struggles faced by diligent employees.
Despite going above and beyond what was expected of their position, u/Head_Lizard was repeatedly turned down for a promotion and, eventually, their managers even started shamelessly taking credit for their work.
This clinician put a lot of extra effort into their work but management didn’t appreciate it
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So they decided to seek change
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The road to a promotion is rarely clear nowadays
John Beeson, who is a senior fellow in human capital at The Conference Board and author of The Unwritten Rules: The Six Skills You Need to Get Promoted to the Executive Level, believes that in most organizations, promotions are not governed by common sense but rather the often fuzzy, intuitive, and poorly expressed feelings of senior executives regarding individuals’ ability to succeed in C-suite positions.
“As an aspiring executive, you might not know those rules, much less the specific skills you need to develop or demonstrate to follow them. The bottom line: You’re left to your own devices in interpreting feedback and finding a way to achieve your career goals,” he wrote in the Harvard Business Review.
“Many of the unwritten rules are especially hard to nail down because they don’t pertain to technical ability, industry experience, or business knowledge. Rather, they relate to the ‘soft’ skills that combine to give decision-makers an intuitive sense of whether a candidate will succeed at the senior level. And, as predictable career paths become more or less extinct, the confusion for people seeking advancement just gets worse.”
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Sometimes managers purposefully avoid losing a good employee
Beeson also highlighted that companies usually don’t spell out how leadership skills should be demonstrated at different levels or how the relative importance of those qualities will change as you rise in the hierarchy.
One way to get insight is to simply approach your boss and colleagues directly for their opinions, though as we’ve just seen, their input might be of little value.
u/Head_Lizard was asked to apply for the open positions but was turned down. If your manager repeatedly promises that a pay bump or promotion is around the corner but doesn’t deliver, “you’re getting jerked around,” said Mark Moyer, a career coach and business strategist at New York City-based Compass Points Advisors. And if you wait to address the issue, the damage to your long-term opportunities can be huge.
If this happens to you, Moyer thinks that you need to set parameters with your boss: “We’ve talked about me getting a raise. Do you know when it will come through?” If you get a vague response, Moyer claims that you might need to put on a little more pressure. For example, “I’m not interested in leaving, but since we both feel that I deserve this raise, I’d like to set a date for when I can expect it.”
u/Head_Lizard raised the stakes even more. And since it wasn’t a bluff, there was no need for them to back down.
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As the story went viral, people started reacting to it and sharing advice on what the best course of action is in these situations
Some also shared their own similar experiences
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