'The other candidate [...] has zero experience': Frustrated worker evens the scales after being passed over for promotion

There's already enough going on in this world that makes you want to mutter under your breath, heck, you're probably wondering why on earth your neighbor was revving their modded Honda Civic at 3 AM while you're dissociating at your desk—and then you come to find that your boss has gone and hired his no-experience nephew to be your boss.

Nepotism in the workplace is always going to grind your gears, even when the nepo-candidate has some relevant experience it's soul-crushing to be passed up for a promotion in favor of someone who is, on paper, less deserving just because they knew the right people or had the right relationships to get them ahead.

It is an ever-unfortunate reality that who you know, not what you know, is more likely to get you ahead. Even beyond outright nepotism, it's no secret that someone who is more outgoing with a social knack and an appetite for organizational politics (or even someone just more generally liked) is more likely to get ahead of their more competent and experienced colleagues.

This worker reached a tipping point when they learned that they had been eliminated from contention for internal promotion in favor of a less experienced worker who had been shoulder-tapped by an executive.

So, in this short story they shared with a popular online community, they told of how they sought to even the scales between the remaining candidates. See their story as they shared it along with a few choice reactions below.

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Posted by Brad Dickson