'I'm completely baffled': Worker gets passed over for promotion they were asked to apply for in favor of less experienced coworker
When you're the go-to person in your workplace, continually asked to step up or fill in for your boss when they're away and taking on their excess work when they're overloaded, you'd probably expect that you'd be the next in line for promotion, a shoo-in, essentially having already displayed an aptitude for that level of work. You might especially expect this if you had worked in similar roles in the past and had taken a step down when moving into your current role for reasons not related to performance.
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So, with all of this in mind, you can probably imagine the surprise that this worker felt when they had the rug pulled out from under them in being passed over for a promotion that they were asked to apply for. They had no issue with their coworker who was successful in their bid for the promotion, but they expressed their frustration at having been passed over when they had more experience and, on paper, were much more qualified.
Still, there are some hiring managers out there who make decisions for some pretty strange reasons and the reason could be something as simple as the candidate and the interviewer connected over the fact that they shared the same alma mater. Or, maybe the organization recognizes that the worker is so valuable in their current role that they made the decision to keep them there, as organizations often do. Whatever the reason, it's clear here that this remains true: The world is a strange place that often doesn't make a whole lot of logical sense.
See the worker's post below that they originally submitted to a popular community for workplace discussion. -
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