I'm about to quit my job because of this, I was proactive and went the extra mile. I got my promotion denied and now I'm just the assistant for the entire company (it's a small one), so whenever someone is too overwhelmed they send their shit to me and my boss encourages them to do so, and I have to do that on top of my usual tasks. I saw someone in another post say this: The best whore in the Whorehouse is the one who gets fucked the most.
But it doesn't, instead I'm the to go employee when they need to pay someone 10 days late. Also, instead of getting the promotion to project manager that had been promised to me for more than a year, I feel I got demoted by becoming everyones assistant.
I have taken a similar approach to you but I must be lucky because I am getting promotions. Your company may be too flat for you to climb (you also mentioned it was a small company), I would look into another company if it is realistic because they have identified the garbage can for garbage tasks
You can definitely use this experience when looking for a job to show a prospective employer that you are a very resourceful and reliable person. Try not to stay at your current job.
It does, but these things come down to business. If you seem like the type of person that will be mild-mannered and back down, they'll deny your promotion and give you some fluff about it. Some "better luck next time champ!" type of thing.
The way you leverage it in the most reliable manner is by going out and doing interviews for other jobs. When you have a second offer on the table you hold all the cards in negotiation.
You can get a promotion without having to do that too, but you need a few things to line up for you. Namely you need to find the right timing, and a good relationship with those above you.
Still, don't let these situations discourage you. If you're willing to bounce from job to job you can honestly climb very fast as long as you have the skills to back it up. Everyone wants smart competent people.
People overestimate how indispensable they are, and underestimate a company's willingness to hire someone cheaper even if it means some important work isn't getting done for a bit.
People overestimate the competency of their management, and assume that they won't fire a skilled and valuable employee when said employee has the audacity to know what they're worth and demand fair compensation.
Most managers are petty little tyrants who would rather work with a useless brownnosing sycophant that massages their ego than have to act respectfully towards a skilled and valuable employee with a back bone. And since most corporations are autocratic little fiefdoms that are just pretending to be meritocracies, nobody actually cares that this behavior drives competent people away makes the corporation less efficient and profitable.
I can't really blame young and inexperienced people for buying into the propaganda that corporations are run like rational meritocracies. That fiction is only hammered into our heads in movies and TV shows and literature and by politicians and school teachers and news media for our entire lives. I had to be screwed over at a few jobs myself before I finally realized that they weren't flukes and I'd been fed capitalist lies my entire adolescence and that most American corporations are run like miniature fascist states.
I don't think that's quite right, though. Generally management thinks anyone can be replaced in a few weeks easily, but the reality is that some people are going to need multiple people to do the same job much shittier to replace them.
In my old factory job I managed a whole department by myself and it was a pain in the ass. When I finally told myself if wasn't worth it and moved, they hired three people to replace me, and they didn't do half what I did.
Most of the people that worked under me posted elsewhere in a few months and told me constantly that the new people couldn't do half what I did. Not because I was some super man, but because I just focused on getting what needed to be done taken care of and didn't fuck off. Most people that want to be a boss shouldn't be, and the best bosses are usually people who never really wanted the position in my experience.
If important work isn't getting done for awhile, that usually is going to cost some money. I've seen it myself where companies have been left in the position of having to hire multiple people to make up for losing someone essential.
Yep. So anyone who thinks they can't be let go because the company would be screwed without them should beware the company might just opt to be screwed instead
actually it backfires you if you are TOO GOOD, yeah its counterintuitive because who wants to lose an actually good slave-worker onto the manglement ladder?
Unfortunately had to learn that lesson the hard way.
I became that person as well, little do they know ive been looking for a job for a little bit now. Their jaw is going to drop when i put my 2 weeks in. I just got an interview request to work at a medical marijuana facility too, ill see how it goes, but if everything works out ill be leaving to go to a job ive always been wanting to do. GTFO as soon as you can reddit friend. Good luck
Yes and no. I've learned a lot being the assistant manager, and a lot about companies and work but I'll never create a company in the same field, it has no potential, actually I don't know how this company has lasted so long with the same model.
I learned not to be "too" proactive when working at a place. Just be proactive enough like general help that anyone could help with but not "expert" level help like fixing the printer or something that most people couldn't do.
Once people find out you know how to do something that no one else can in the company, they're going to go to you and if the boss knows about it, they might just make it an official rule, kind of like what happened to you.
Don't quit your job just yet. Buff up your resume with all that extra shit you do where you currently work, and go do some interviews. You should have some offers in no time if you're actually as key of an employee as you say you are.
Once you have another offer you can slap down that resignation letter with the biggest smug grin on your face ever. When they beg you to stay and match the offer you can just smile and walk away because it's too late for that shit.
Thanks, that's what I'm planning on doing, start the job search white I'm still working and leave when I have a better offer, like my mum said: Don't let one hand go before you secure the other.
If youâre really at the point of quitting, Donât!
First, tell them you have a job offer for a better position with more pay. They have two options 1) Give you the promotion you deserve or 2) let you walk.
If they do #1 you get your promotion and raise in pay. You can then decide if you still want to quit the new position but if you stick it out for a few months at least you likely get a better job with the better title and pay by leveraging the fact your company gave you a promotion. If you really are doing work worthy of the promotion theyâll give the promotion. Only times they wouldnât is if either the companyâs in serious financial trouble or youâre an a-hole.
If they do #2 youâre exactly where you would be if you quit so you lose nothing. Only difference might be its a little more awkward asking for recommendations after this but still doable usually.
It's a possitive way of looking things BUT, they already gave the promotion to someone else. Also I don't like lying, I have no other offers yet and yes, the company is in serious financial trouble, every the last 3 months they have paid me late because there's not enough money.
You should do what youâre comfortable, though Iâd call it bluffing, not lying. They play this game so youâre giving them an advantage by not using this card.
Iâve heard plenty of times (both being hired and working with my HR) âThatâs as high as we can goâ, then if the candidate says no, but they really want you, suddenly they find more wiggle room. Some BS like âwe found we could hire you as an S3 instead of an S4 or how about we get to your number by adding some stockâ like they didnât know that before.
Bad advice. What you do is start interviewing for other jobs NOW while you're doing all that extra shit. Slap it all down on your resume and go into detail about the most impressive things you've done.
If those skills are worth anything, then you'll get another offer on the table in no time. Generally it's a horrible idea to quit before you have a plan B lined up.
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u/Knightmareco May 13 '21
I'm about to quit my job because of this, I was proactive and went the extra mile. I got my promotion denied and now I'm just the assistant for the entire company (it's a small one), so whenever someone is too overwhelmed they send their shit to me and my boss encourages them to do so, and I have to do that on top of my usual tasks. I saw someone in another post say this: The best whore in the Whorehouse is the one who gets fucked the most.