Project manager with 5+ years of experience gets demoted after company makes $500 million off of his work: 'I am absolutely dejected, to say the least'

This project manager did everything on paper to ensure that at the end of the year, he would get his long-overdue promotion. Well, it didn't happen.

This author shared his disappointment and frustration online after five years working as a project manager for a successful and well-known telecommunications company. Before his performance evaluation at the end of December, he was confident that he would finally earn a raise. After all, he did everything he could do.

He performed his daily tasks and responsibilities. He went above and beyond by training new hires and coordinating various teams to ensure maximum transparency and efficiency from project to project. He even implemented new procedures that benefited everyone across the company. No, he didn't have to do all of this work. It wasn't expected of him according to his contract. However, it was encouraged to find these extra avenues within this company where you could prove your value. At this point, he had certainly done that and then some.

However, when it finally came time to meet with his manager about that promotion, he was denied. In fact, it gets even worse. He was demoted to a "Customer Care" role. Five years of being a company man and overextending himself, only to be told he was less valuable than his current salary.

Not only is the hierarchical structure of this telecommunications company questionable at best and morally bankrupt at worst, but also upper management had better be careful when word about this project manager's trajectory gets out.
Sure, it's just one person, and he may very well leave the company to work somewhere else (if he doesn't, he certainly should). But his treatment is bigger than one person's unfortunate anecdote. When stories spread about a lack of mobility, and in this case, the exact opposite of mobility, people are going to be less and less inclined to work there.
It's hard to argue with this author's contributions to this company on paper, which makes it all the more difficult to justify his stagnation and demotion.
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