In the past, it was not very often that those who added little or no value got promotions more easily than hard workers with excellent performance.
How many people do you know now who got a promotion thanks to their competences and efforts alone?
That's hardly anyone these days and it's pretty clear to me now that I would get a promotion sooner if I quit.
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You can generally forget the idea of merit based promotions and bonuses, here is how the process actually works: around August each year managers complete a talent planning exercise which actually begins in early June. Employees are stack ranked by their manager, then aggregated with their peer’s lists. The peers then meet and justify their rankings with their shared executive. Everyone roots for their favorite E/E candidates and pokes holes in others top talent. The only way you stay at the top of the list is if multiple of your managers peers know who you are, and better, remember a time you kissed up to them. If your managers peers don’t know you, or have even one example (in the last 5 years) of how you didn’t properly adore them, you lose ranking. After all that, if your managers boss does not know you, has a real (or false) memory of you not properly adoring their pet project, or has a grudge for some other reason, you lose ranking.
So the only way to really score in ranking is to shamelessly self promote to your managers peers, be the person on all hands who makes comments about how great your skip level managers latest whimsical initiative is, and get on committees where other managers will recognize your name. Doing your job really well, speaking up when you see ineffective processes (remember they are someone’s pet project) and being a great teammate to your peers (seen only by your manager) is not going to pay off in the long run. That is the reality, unfortunately.
I got 2 in just over 12 months.
NVM, I thought I was in the portal for a different bank
U gotta be the best A-s Kizzer. And yes men, yes man.
Phonies hiring their cronies and on and on.
I can't think of one promotion I've seen around here in 25+ years that was purely merit-based.
As others have said, more important to be a fake-y, rah rah, kool-aid swiggin' azz-kizzer.
So if you choose to stay, bend over and pucker up!
To get a promotion here at this shlithole you have to be incompetent, good azz kisser and meet one of the diversity requirements. This company is filled with empty suit mutherfockas. This starts from that blockhead CEO BM. This company is one big shitl show. They constantly change procedures and no one knows what they are doing. I am tired of seeing the same old pale face mofos doing conference calls.
………you have to be an excellent shoeshiner to get promoted.
Do you mean promotion or raise? A raise-less promotion may only get you more training.
The key to promotion can be found in a movie called, Officespace
Keep your TPS reports up to date and watch your stapler closely.
Oh, and never come in on the weekend.
If you meet someone named Bob, keep them close.