Experienced worker gets passed over for promotion after her manager witnesses how she speaks to new hires: 'I was fuming. I hate it when people type like that on social media'
When people use the term "not leadership material" they can mean a wide variety of things. It can mean that you're not suited to the organization's toxic expectations of complicity and your unwillingness to follow whatever directive is passed down to you blindly. It can also mean that your performance isn't up to standard or that you don't prioritize interpersonal relationships and kiss the appropriate rear ends often and well enough.
However, it can just as likely mean that you lack actual qualities that make a good leader, like the strength of your communication or your competency, efficiency, and ability to get things done. Of course, while sometimes the trait they're looking for or judgment of your competency might not be fair, it generally boils down to "we don't want to promote you," a sort of "It's not you, it's me" of the working world. However you might feel about this, self-reflection is important, and the only way to grow is to take feedback on board.
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This management-aspiring worker earned herself the label over her treatment of her fellow workers when her manager observed how she was talking to the new staff in a frustrated and demeaning tone, complete with clapping between every word she was saying as if she was living in some sort of meme. Her manager recounted the events in a post they shared to this online community. I found this to be an interesting conversation piece since most accounts you see online generally come from the perspective of the worker who has been passed over, and usually, their narrative is that there was no reason or fault of their own in that eventuating.
Read on to see selections of the original thread below.
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