Employee is passed up on a promotion but is expected to transfer all of his work and ideas to colleague who landed the position: ‘Higher-ups didn't want my ideas in the first place’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Oct 19, 2024 1:00 PM EDT

When you're up for a big promotion, tensions are running high. You don't know if what you've been doing in your role warrants a promotion if you're up against bigger and better candidates, and if this is what you even really want. One might assume that as an internal candidate, an internal promotion is a no-brainer. After all, they know all about the company and how it runs. It just makes sense. Even if you think you might have it in the bag, higher-ups prove time and time again that they don't care about you or your ideas. Well, maybe your ideas. Just not you.

The employee in this Reddit story is seeking advice after he was passed up on a promotion he applied for within his company. The promotion was given to someone else that the employee believes is equally as deserving. The issue is that his newly promoted colleague is asking him for his ideas and methods of problem-solving. This struck the original poster (OP) as odd, because if his ideas were so valuable, why didn't he get promoted instead? The OP is looking for a way to kindly tell him to get lost.

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