Today, I learned that you can be qualified for a position, be a nice person and enthusiastic about working, but as soon as the boss has a relative looking for a job, nepotism wins. FML
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Today, I got notice that I didn't get the new position I applied for at work. After two interviews, pay negotiation and paperwork, as well as years of giving this place all my time, I found out my boss gave it to his friend's daughter, who has no experience or credentials needed for the position. FML
Today, upon applying for a new job to leave my old crappy job I was informed by my new potential employer that he was unable to hire me because he is friends with my current boss. FML
Today, I was passed over for the job of my dreams. I now have to watch as a girl I have on Facebook - a total moron - boasts daily about scoring the position instead. Turns out the interviewer was her uncle. FML
Today, the girl I hired and trained took my director's position. She's not even been there a month. I didn't do anything to lose it, they just decided she was more qualified. At least I was good at picking employees I guess. FML
Today, I found out that after interviewing for two jobs at great companies, I was neck and neck with one other person for each position. They both offered the job to the other person. FML
Today, my boss told me I got my new job because she rejected candidates that seemed "too confident" or "too pretty." FML
Today, my boss held a meeting to talk about how we can't overlook others and no one should pick favorites. I walked out unemployed when I pointed out that she completely ignored the person who made the biggest sale in company history and constantly gave her son raises for mediocre work. FML
Today, I found out that a co-worker of mine that I had originally hired, trained, and mentored to work in my department for the past 4 years had just got the promotion that I had applied for. He is now my boss. FML
Today, I found out that a coworker and I may get laid off soon, all because my boss's niece told him she can do both our jobs all by herself, and for less money. FML
Today, I found out that the reason I didn't get the job that I have been working my butt off for over a year for is because they can't find anybody who can do my current job as good as me. I'm too good to be promoted. FML
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kaprookie 3
3 Words. ****. Your. Life.
kindlystfupls 0
this isn't new news.
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Comments (70)
Judus_beej 0
tell your boss your his offspring from a one night stand and the only way to get out of paying for child support for all those years is to be promoted.
zeron 0
maybe his relative is just a better worker? it's not always nepetism
Trace01m 11
None of us believe that, and you know it
0opsie 6
It's a possibility that the relative really is more qualified; but you're always going to be biased when hiring family members, no matter how hard you try not to be. And the way OP wrote it makes it sound like the boss hired the relative out of the blue, just because the guy needed a job.
stevenmx86 8
That sucks op but what would you do in the boss's situation?
Moemoemoe_fml 0
Yeah! People are always whining when it happens to them, but it's not like they'd have pushed their relative into the street and chosen a stranger over them if they had been in the boss' shoes!
akaashR 0
Don't be such a ****** OP, Family have to help their own.
womblebat 2
As we say, it's not what you know, it's who you know.
Leetswaglordmaybe2 9
OMG totally unexpected >.>
tundraman07 0
No shit!
kinderteach 0
it's never what you know, it's who you know.
lekiat 0
oh I hate that!
carpediemryders 0
you couldn't be anymore correct, where I live, it's not what you know... it's who you know! and that's bull$h!t