A New Employee Was Told He Couldn’t Be Promoted Before 3 Months—Then Watched a Coworker Get One at 2 Months
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It’s never a good feeling when when you think you’ve done great work at your job, you’ve put the time in, made sacrifices…and someone else gets promoted over you.
In fact, that’s enough to make some people start looking elsewhere for better opportunities.
And you can’t blame them, right?
Heck no!
The person who wrote this story is pretty upset that they got passed over for a promotion, and they opened up about it.
Let’s take a look!
Should I say something about getting passed over for promotion?
“I am feeling a type of way about a coworker who has been there less time than me getting promoted over my head.
So the company I work for has levels.
This sounds very organized…
When I came in at Level 1 I was told it was policy to be there 3-6 months before moving up to Level 2.
This coworker has only been here 2 months to my 4 months and they are getting promoted to Level 2 (which comes with a dollar raise).
I was told this was to get them out of the rooms so they don’t train new people but then I look at the schedule and they are training someone.
That’s not fair!
This coworker is also the one that most of us are complaining about attitude-wise and just how lazy they are in their role.
I don’t know if I should say something to my supervisor or not as I’m not a perfect employee, but I feel like I should at least have been considered as “it’s the holiday season and we need more people in the Level 2 role”.”
Reddit users spoke up.
This person had a lot to say.
Another reader weighed in.
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And this person spoke up.
Well, this is a bummer.
Nobody likes this feeling overlooked…not even a little bit.
It sounds like they should update their resume and start looking for another job.
You can’t blame them for being annoyed by this…
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