I worked at a shitty movie theatre for years and was promised an assistant general manager position - as in, showed my name tag with the position. Learned both front and back of house, worked literal 100 hour weeks (no OT, no benefits because “entertainment industry.”
Instead, they hired a random sociopathic woman who was lazy and did nothing at all. Not only verbally abusive, but also physically assaulted me. Absolutely tanked morale and they started hemorrhaging employees.
Tbf promoting from within isn’t always a silver bullet. Especially when it comes dev -> manager pipeline, some people are just good at what they do but shitty as managers.
I recently applied for a management role in another organizational unit. My role has considerable overlap with that work area. They decided to only consider external candidates after the first round of interviews.
They settled on someone that doesn’t really have relatable experience. I’ve had to train them on so many things. It’s just demoralizing.
A project I did is getting written up in a national (industry) publication soon. It represents the type of work that I interviewed for.
But fuck me, right?
What’s worse is the reverse and it happens more often: Posting a job and then hiring from outside rather than promoting from within.
Because no manager wants to lose their low paid competent worker. So instead they hire the outside person for the senior position.
I worked at a shitty movie theatre for years and was promised an assistant general manager position - as in, showed my name tag with the position. Learned both front and back of house, worked literal 100 hour weeks (no OT, no benefits because “entertainment industry.”
Instead, they hired a random sociopathic woman who was lazy and did nothing at all. Not only verbally abusive, but also physically assaulted me. Absolutely tanked morale and they started hemorrhaging employees.
did they ever gave you a reason why they hired the lazy woman.
Not necessarily…a lot of places will only hire from within so they don’t actually have to pay market prices to attract outside talent.
Tbf promoting from within isn’t always a silver bullet. Especially when it comes dev -> manager pipeline, some people are just good at what they do but shitty as managers.
Oh sure, but you don’t know until you let them try.
I recently applied for a management role in another organizational unit. My role has considerable overlap with that work area. They decided to only consider external candidates after the first round of interviews.
They settled on someone that doesn’t really have relatable experience. I’ve had to train them on so many things. It’s just demoralizing.
A project I did is getting written up in a national (industry) publication soon. It represents the type of work that I interviewed for.
But fuck me, right?
a research position?
Then that low paid competent worker searches for employment elsewhere. That’s what happens at my company.