'I showed myself out': Worker makes themselves irreplaceable, bosses refuse to promote them

We often like to think that, through sheer grinding, grit, and determination, our efforts will be rewarded with greater compensation and career progression. After all, that's what we've always been led to believe by schooling and popular culture. But what if you make yourself so irreplaceable that your bosses refuse—or simply can't afford—to promote you?

Being too high of a performing productive worker lends itself to some complications. To replace you, the company may have to hire two or three people—maybe even more. Even, say, if you were to be promoted to your boss's job, you'd immediately be faced with explaining the workgroup's lower productivity and higher costs to your new bosses—simply because you were no longer producing.

It's certainly a thing, and this worker shared their experience with being pigeonholed into their role through their sheer effectiveness and irreplaceability.

Read on for their account. Next, check out this candidate who told an interviewer they were more qualified for the interviewer's job.

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