Most of the organizational “leaders” I have worked for have told me I am not a strong people manager/leader, but all I see from those same “leaders” is chaos, inconsistency, fear, lack of communication, deception, and political turf wars - an overall void of leadership. Maybe I should be glad I have not been promoted - perhaps their indictment of me is actually a compliment that I actually add value. It’s a shame all the money is wasted on the narcissists that squabble over credit for things they didnt do and deflect criticism onto others - you know, real “leadership”

All 4 of the top reasons still go back to….people quit bosses! The years of being a narcissistic sociopath and treating people like toothpicks is over. People would rather go on welfare than work for toxic people.

Without "music" video would have been much better.

Omg i didn't know about PHD until i experience it now 😢 i just came back from Europe trip

Are you high?

Came back from 3 weeks trip to Thailand. As someone from Europe it was the first time I experienced something so different yet so incredibly beautiful… I keep just randomly crying now, feeling like I don’t belong to my country anymore… moments there were worth everything but coming back is simply painful 😞

bad bosses or too many bosses.

The irreplacable concept and not promoting an employee because he is so good at what he does, eaning its a high capability and high commitment employee. Because that kind of employee is like that because he wants to excel and get promoted, because he want a higher income. So if you keep it down there doing it, eventually he will get frustrated and will quit, so the irreplacable employee concept is dumb and short term vision. In an organization you have 4 kinds of employee. 1.-Low capability, low commitment, those need to be fired righ away. 2.- High capability and low commitment, those guys can be worked out, by challenging them to keep them producing. 3 Low capability and high commitment, this guys can be trained and mentored to optimize their skills and perform better. 4.-High capability and High commitment, these guys need to be leaders, because all the other guys will allways go th this king of guy to ask for questions, mentorship. Normally Guys types 2 & 3 are around 70-80% of the team.

The bonus applies to me perfectly. I am tendering my resignation tomorrow for a position at a competitor. I'm irreplaceable and have been promised advancement for years.

Turn your Podcast into a Profit Center? With 15 views in a year and 1500 subscribers after 15 years?

Turn your Podcast into a Profit Center? With 15 views in a year and 1500 subscribers on a 15 year old channel?

The answer to all this is: start a business, because being an employee absolutely sucks, no matter how you view it, unless you get a lucky break or are wired in a way that causes you to look and act like something they like, usually having little to do with merit. BTW, if they can fire you without a successor (and they can), then they can promote you without a successor. If they want to do it, they'll do it. The "successor" theory sounds like more of an excuse.

The problem with this video, as with so many of these types of videos, is that the company and management is never wrong -- it's always your fault. I get the impression that these videos always spin this to off the blame on the employee so that companies that see the video will like it, and give him/her/other gen a contract, versus faulting the company and taking the side of the employee does not have that big financial upside.

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1. Identify your successors. I did all of them have been promoted higher than me. 2. Helping with the bigger picture. Have done that and just get the workload dumped on me. When trying to get involved often times, I'm scolded for trying to help.

Iv done all the steps over a 20+ year career.

You're AS CLUELESS as the managers in a bubble who are your clients. People RARELY care about team and lovey stuff, they leave almost ENTIRELY because of pathetic managers. That SAME bunch trying to do ANYTHING but blame themselves while looking AT METRICS. Like they're going to find the answer IN STATISTICS. And the second reason is your pay is in the lower 30% of what others are paying.

I don't buy this bullshit. They want to pick who they want.

Im not sure I buy the irreplaceable argument because in reality if they dont promote you, eventually, they will eventually have to replace you.

I can deal with a bad job but I can not deal with a bad manager

Gone are the days where you show up on time do the hard yakka work extra hours cover over peoples shifts and then make your way up the company. Nowadays those who adapt what I call a George Costanza like persona don’t do anything show up late aren’t very good at their role require assistance on all simple tasks and take lots of days off and yet get promoted. I’ve worked in professional workplaces and I can tell you those who slack off take multiple days off show up late leave early screw up big client accounts get promoted while hard working dedicated long term staff are kept in the same repetitive line of work. A manager long time ago 2010 drunkenly told a co worker of mine that she passed me over / gave me a bad reference because if I had left and taken up a new role she would have been lost and actually would have to do work. I then resigned and when I was deleting all my emails I noticed that she had forwarded me every email she had ever gotten asking me to “take care of it” I then began to realize she didn’t do a single damm thing in the office and just dumped all her work onto me to be completed.

Returned last week from Santorini: this past week has been a living hell!

I’m so depressed smh

The most simple thing i do is put all the peoples birthday in my agenda. This makes a big difference. Also i try to greet everyone and everyday. And i remembers if people face some struggle and ask if they are coping. People love working for me.

Uhmmm hate to break it to ya but the reason why ur not getting promoted is these 3. #1. You're not important, and your role is best given to diversity hires.. true reality. #2. Favortism, that chick that comes to work with leggings leggings letting everybody know she has a big ass and a perfect 10/10 body yeah, shes not there to look good for you, shes there to impress the simps who happens to be management, shes getting the favor, you aint. #3. Snitches and ass kissers, sadly these types exists, one min your having FUN and are getting along with everyone, next thing you know, that 1 person u made a joke to, goes behind ur back and tells their boss what u said, yeah his getting promoted, not you. Honestly if you been with a company non federal, and you havent made supervisor or staff withint 1-2 years you should look els where, these types of company do not care abour your skills and competence.. you're only there as a means for them to gain.

Working and having a career in the U.S. is like never having graduated from high school. The same petty and ridiculous games are being played and being in the right clique and how popular you are will unfortunately determine a big part of your success.

So set a good example. Self awareness is the first step in being a great leader. In essence contradicting yourself smh

98% of the time all that matters is how you make them "feel". If they like having you around, you will be rewarded, if they don't, you won't - regardless of whether you are the best employee on the payroll.

A promotion is not an award or recognition of anything... it's just a lot more work, for not that much more money.

I just returned from a 5 day fishing trip. I went alone but was surrounded by people who were there for the same reason. I found I was talking to 10+ different people a day about fishing and past trips we had taken. Now that I'm home back into my isolated world I have no one to talk about the things I am interested in here, day trading, raising a garden, going to hear live music at festivals, things I read and study about online. So I think a big cause of the after vacation depression is you're no longer surrounded by people with a common interest to have someone to enjoy the things and experience together, even if it's strangers. I need to find a way of getting that here with my at home interest.

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Wow! So short video with a BIG influence on my thoughts. Thanks a lot!

Promised a review after 3 months, 6 months now no review, timeto find something else

Told them for 3 years where I want to go again zero nothing, left unpromoted so , again where is the problem ?! All three I did and been overlooked 5x in 5 years !?!?! Other teams are saying I should be higher by now , but my boss doesnt care

Did nevee got a chance to do higher up stuff even though asked to be involed myself always was a NO. So again... why not promoted ?!

To find my replacment is not up to me to do but leadership... sorry not doing their job not paid for it.

Just quit go to company that will promote you jist doing it tomorrow bye bye old company you sure will miss me as my team already told me dont you dare quitting.... so I just did. Sorry team mates and other teams now I dont know who you will go to with questions .... byebyebyebye

I did #2 and drove ideas that restructured a dysfunctional org all the way up to an AVP level. I busted siloes, drove the org closer to the big picture, and the org even rebranded to promote cross functional thinking. I took initiative to ask for career progression, trained every peer I had, and identified plenty of potential successors. The result? Said successors pushed me out of the most visible conversations, and I was treated like #1 “you’re too valuable to replace” while my middle management refused to be transparent and fought with my boss above my head about his political agenda which I had nothing to do with. My bosses trapped me into a box so I ended up securing another opportunity and leaving. The biggest lesson I learned from all of this is that you have to self advocate and protect yourself and your work throughout this process. Politics exist and will absolutely be played against you if you treat your career like it’s a meritocracy. I used to hate self advocacy but now view it as a protection mechanism against poor management. And there are a LOT of terrible managers out there at every level. Expect that your boss has no clue what you do and be pleasantly surprised if they advocate for you. Even then, be the person taking the initiative. Learning how to effectively manage up is so crucial.

I didn’t travel for 3 yrs cuz of this sucks feeling when get bk home

My company gives me great reviews and decent pay rises year after year. But its a small company where i report to one of the directors, so there is no promotion on the horizon unless a position is invented. Having said that, its sad to see that 5 managers have left in 3 years and not a single person has been officially promoted.

I don't see money anywhere at all in these suggestions. Not saying it's a sufficient solution, but you aren't going to be successful without giving it up.

Right on point!

The job, boss, company sucks...or there's a hostile environment involving promotions.

Source?

Your managers push out good talent to save they're own ass. Start making mangers work and not manage others . My managers would never just babysit the other employees if you aint working you aint a manager . Its that simple

Very well put and set , useful Tip!! Thanks a Ton❤

To hell with raises or promotions. What employees really want is more pizza parties.

Yes, I quit because of my manager.

There's room at the top they're telling you still ...

Not true never share your knowledge and don’t find someone to replace you. Why because now they can train more people for the job and next they promote some one that’s lgbt or a minority group or some one lazy and they get promoted. Companies are there to fuck you over. One of the managers in the company I worked with slept with a senior operations manager and guess what she got promoted when she was not supposed to be promoted until quarter 4 of next year but she fucked the boss and 4 managers where more qualified for the position. It’s all bull shit and politics. Now if we had the mafia union jobs back in the 60,s does bosses would been killed thrown off in the lake the good old days for fucking employees over. Back in the day when people get promoted they earned it not like today.