Manager Refuses to Promote Employee Because He’s ‘Too Good At What He’s Doing Now’

No good deed goes unpunished, especially in the workplace. If you are an extremely competent worker who goes above and beyond for your company, it is rare that you will be rewarded for it. You might be rewarded with verbal praise or affirmations of your value, but that won’t translate into any material benefits or …
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‘You can’t be here; I fired you’: Employee gets reinstated after being fired for refusing to buy boss new drink, upper management reinstates employee despite boss’s orders

Upper management usually doesn’t intervene between bosses and their employees, unless the issue is considered unsolvable. In this case, it wasn’t exactly that the case was ‘unsolvable’, but rather that this particular boss simply didn’t have the authority to fire any employee. Not to mention that there weren’t even proper grounds for this employee to …
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Upper Management’s Plan to Make Employees Feel Stupid Backfires Big Time

Everyone knows that the so-called managerial class is the best at failing upwards. In many cases, it is a manager’s mediocrity that allows them to climb the latter, not their intelligence. That’s why it’s extra funny when upper management actually believes they’re smarter than everyone else and therefore deserve their inflated salaries. One particular HR …
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