Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Why No One Wants A Promotion" video.

  1. Yep, that's why I generally refuse promotions. It's not that I can't do the managing, it's that the idiots above me make it incredibly miserable to do so.
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  2. That was one of the issues I had at the previous job I had. You get a tiny amount of extra money, no power to make anything happen, and a bunch of people above you on your ass because of things not being done, but there's no resources or power given to the manager to make it happen.
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  3. IMHO, companies that are properly run, don't have issues with getting people to take promotions. If you've got a bunch of people refusing promotions, especially, the good folks that have other options but don't necessarily want to put up with the hassles associated with changing jobs.
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  4. It was a similar sort of a thing at my previous job. They kept offering me promotions, but you get a very small bump in salary, no increase in ability to enforce whatever managerial decisions you get to make, and you get yelled at if everything isn't the way they want it to be. I got stuck managing the department for 4 months without any pay, I found out at that point, that they weren't going to give me the manager bonus, a portion would be going to the new manager when they eventually decided to hire one, and he'd be getting a bit of bonus based entirely on the work that I had done. I stuck around for a few weeks, but the whole thing just reinforced the reasons I had for not wanting to be a manager there. I could do the managerial tasks quite well, but I had absolutely no faith that after having been promised by corporate that I'd be taken care of, that taken care of meant being present when they gave somebody my bonus and completely left out of any pay for the work I had done, while they took their sweet time looking for somebody to fill any of the open positions in the department. I think, there were supposed to be 3 or 4 total, and we had 2, which meant the only way to cover all the shifts would have been for us to both work 7 days a week.
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