'I am far more qualified': Employee loses promotion to newer coworker because of her more 'bubbly' personality

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Oct 15, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

It's easy to be underestimated when you're young in the workplace. Here, we have an employee who swears to be the most technically competent person on their team and recently trained a much older coworker who had just started at the company. When a new position opened up that the Redditor applied to and thought they should get in a heartbeat, they were denied for two main reasons. Firstly, their employer assumed she was too young and inexperienced despite having put in more years at the company than most folks on the team. Second, and this one is even more egregious: the employer told the Redditor that they were not as "bubbly" as the person who ended up getting the position. And who was that person, you might ask? Well, if you guessed that it was the new hire the original poster (OP) recently trained, you would be correct.

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    Was overlooked for a promotion because my inexperienced colleague is a "bubbly" person
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    Vent A new lady started at my work and is maybe 10 years older than me.
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    Is immediately chummy with everyone and they all act as if they've know each other for years. I find it extremely strange
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    considering the same older people in my team ignore me entirely and if I didn't speak to them first, I'd be totally invisible to them.
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    They seem to have no respect for younger workers.
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    It has been less than 6 months after her starting in the role, and I trained her on everything.
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    New management job comes up. I apply and interviewed really well, but didn't get the job because I was told I didn't have enough experience.
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    I know everything there is to know because I have 6 years experience doing exactly what was listed in the criteria.
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    Guess what, they gave. the job to the lady with 6 months of knowledge..... who I trained and taught everything to.
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    She apparently got the job over me because she was a "bubbly" person.
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    Like w does that even mean. She has no technical knowledge and if you need to troubleshoot anything I can't ask her because she simply won't know the answer.
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    I am far more qualified and she has even said multiple times in our meetings that she is just "winging it".
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    Seems like I've been totally stitched up. I have also lost out on quite a large pay rise because of this.
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    Don't know whether to laugh or cry. Now going to look into moving departments because I'm tired of being suppressed of my potential and I don't feel
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    valued. The team will crash and burn without me, but that's their problem. They'll soon see how well the "bubbly" woman copes once I move and all technical knowledge is gone.
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    I've told nobody I feel this way, I want to give as little. notice as possible of my transfer in order to reverse uno them and leave them blindsided.
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