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"My boss refused to promote me or give me reasonable raises so I developed skills on the company dime that got me a >100% raise at another company."
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See, outside of their monitored KPIs and watching the graphs go up and down, managers don't really have a developed understanding of why those numbers fluctuate, just that they do, and when they go up, you celebrate and spend money, and when they go down, you tell everyone to make them go up again. If a project is done on time and ticks the right boxes for them, they won't ask any questions, but they won't celebrate your work either; they'll simply pat themselves on the back for “enabling” you to do your work.
Without the right manager, you'll have to come up for air yourself and make sure you're communicating properly with the people you report directly to and ensure that they know just how important you and your work are. This, of course, is called “upwards communication" since you're directing the flow of your own information, well, upwards.After four years working as an engineer at a large firm that was almost big enough to swallow them whole, the engineer sought to progress their career by getting onto the management ladder.
Their development included leading a single project, which, when completed alone, earned the company $1.6M in its first year. Regardless, once the project was successfully launched, the engineer quickly found them largely forgotten, being handed peanuts for their accomplishment instead of what they were sure was going to be a promotion.
Frustrated, they resolved to solve the solution themselves by using their time at the company to upskill themelves as much as possible. -
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