By the time you're training new hires in your department and taking on additional responsibilities and work, it's about time to start wondering when that promotion is coming. Let's face it: you're basically contributing at a level as if you'd been promoted already, so all that's left is to make the adjustment to your title and compensation. But, of course, no one likes paying for something they're already getting for free—and employers, first and foremost. So they'll drag out that promotion as long as humanly possible, eventually "forgetting" that they had promised it all together.
This graphic designer spent years going above and beyond, training new hires and taking on the most difficult projects while maintaining a high standard of quality in their work. You know—all the things that someone in a higher role would be doing. Yet, when their next annual review rolled around, they were knocked down for having less of a "social presence" than their lazy social-climbing coworker, and the promotion that they had been promised went to the coworker instead. This prompted the graphic designer to leave and seek a better job elsewhere, leaving a gaping hole in the organization where all of their hard work and self-built process had once been.
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