Today, I was once again passed over for a promotion. I'm now the assistant to a kid who has failed to meet almost every single responsibility he's been given before. It's my job to make sure he's successful, and if he isn't, I'll lose my job. FML
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Wild Nights Out
Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
Today, I was passed over for a promotion for a role that I was acting in for a year because I'm not "qualified" for it. But I have to train the person who got the role on how to do the role that I am "not qualified for." The fuck? 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
Today, I had to do my assistant manager's job because she doesn't know what the hell she is doing. I'd interviewed for this position but didn't get it because I'm "still too new for this position." FML
Today, I learned that my boss is training one the the trainees I trained to be supervisor. Everyone supports this, including me. So what's the issue? I was promised that position almost 2 years ago. Apparently, I train people well enough to promote, but I'm not good enough to be promoted myself. FML
Today, I got demoted from my manager's position, only to be replaced by a 21 year-old who has never worked in retail in her life. I now have to spend the next month teaching her my job so they can fire me. FML
Today, I worked a long shift at my job while feeling like crap, anticipating getting a promotion. As my boss was leaving work, he informed me that because I also go to college, the promotion was being given to another employee that I trained a month ago. This is the second time this has happened. FML
Today, my boss brought his son in as our new manager. This kid has zero experience in our industry and yet waltzed into a £75,000 job where his sole responsibility is telling me how to do a skilled job I started before he was born. Plus half the stuff he tries to tell me is incorrect. Cretin. FML
Today, I was told that couldn’t become assistant manager of my job anymore. I already told my family I was going to be one, and they'd all said how proud of me they were. FML
Today, after putting in 110% at my shitty job for two years straight, my boss told me point-blank I'm too good in my current position for him to ever be able to justify promoting me. FML
Today, I did my work, the work of my co-worker who called in sick and the work of my boss who has no idea what the hell is going on all at the same time. I didn't get a promotion because I don't work hard enough. FML
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ucoolgirl31 20
Talk to your boss about it. You could get a solution.
wlddog 14
Start looking for a new job. You are about to get fired.
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Comments (131)
ryggsekk 8
you can do it, I believe in you
marramrammar 2
Quit - go to a competitor! You know while he is at the helm they will falter. Grab down ahold and move on, stop being scared of change, the writing is on the wall! Read wake up call by Eric Allenbaugh guy!!! SMH
noisebox 1
Time to look for another job , sounds like it's the boss's kid....
Soosie 6
Wonder who he knows to get hired on. Sounds like a clear case of nepotism.
BlackRogue 8
If you can prove that you are more qualified, you might be able to appeal... I'd call your labour relations or workers board or what ever it's called in England... Here it's the Labour Board :)
TheyCallMeDamien 18
Who the hell did you piss off? 1. Find a new job. 2. Quit. They are setting you up for failure. Sounds like they simply want an excuse to fire you.
Davick 0
there's things that tick me off and then there's that kind of B.S.! good luck making him get caught sleeping with you bosses wife because in this world that's your only option.
deathchair64 1
Quit
ralenti 3
this sounds like the beginning of a rather good film.
fwongraven 10
If it's the French civil service the OP works for, they have a tendency to take fresh graduates from their top universities and catapult them straight into supervisor/management roles, in charge of the poor guys who have been working their way up from the bottom. It's daft. FHL.