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To complain to my manager about this promotion

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Outofthepix · 09/01/2025 20:32

Someone was kicked out of our team for underperforming and bullying. They were sidelined into a role to keep them out of the way and let the dust settle.

Fast forward a year or so and it’s turned out that a promotion role has been created for this person in another department and they’ve been given it (the company have made it look like they’ve followed process and advertised it properly but it’s clear that the role has been created for them, nobody else interviewed).

It appears the old boys network is still alive and well. I’m disgusted and very angry about this and have had a frank conversation with my boss about this. He says that his hands are tied but I suspect he’s been very key in giving this person a helping hand into the new role. I feel I want to leave the company, I feel so strongly about how unfair it is.

Can’t organisations see how morale is affected when they do these things? This isn’t what our company values are! Roll on retirement, I’ve had enough.

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SerendipityJane · 14/01/2025 17:27

ScaryM0nster · 09/01/2025 20:33

Promoting someone out of the way is a pretty widely recognised practise.

Generally cheaper and easier than dismissals.

A lot of people could have saved a lot of money and 3 years of their lives if they had just read "The Peter Principle" rather than doing management studies.

Their loss.

Jumpingoffthefence · 14/01/2025 18:17

I left an organisation like this. The boys club basically did what they wanted and highly professional experienced women left one by one. I was on the receiving end of a promotion so I knew it was happening and it didn’t sit well and certainly didn’t fit the values framework they were supposed to model their behaviours on. If you can ride it out then fair enough but I couldn’t so left eventually.

SlapTheMelon · 14/01/2025 18:39

Pipsquiggle · 14/01/2025 14:00

I would love someone who works in HR on mumsnet to explain how shit managers / leaders keep their jobs.

Do HR know about them? What can they do? Which metrics do they look at to confirm that they're shit?

I'm not HR but I believe it's because their boss doesn't know what Good Looks like or they are not sure. So they'd rather stay in the status quo and tolerate the shit managers.

sweeneytoddsrazor · 14/01/2025 19:15

Yeah we have people like this but it's not old boys it's women and men. The best managers we have are the ones that have managed to make their way up from the shop floor so to speak, whereas the ones that have come in at graduate level or been head hunted tend to have no real idea

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