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My coworker. Nice person, but always late, calls in sick frequently, and always behind on her work, everyone is pretty sure is being promoted to supervisor. One person said they can’t imagine since she is late each day and can’t finish her work. I disagree and think that making her supervisor might be an easier job for her. She doesn’t have to deal with entering hundreds of orders and answering 200 emails each day.
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I have seen situations where an incompetent manager would rather promote someone than deal with the whole performance improvement process and eventually firing someone. More often, they are promoted to another department to "get rid" of them. It seems a bit odd to expect someone with attendance and time management issues to me responsible for monitoring and evaluating the attendance and time management of others.
My coworker. Nice person, but always late, calls in sick frequently, and always behind on her work, everyone is pretty sure is being promoted to supervisor. One person said they can’t imagine since she is late each day and can’t finish her work. I disagree and think that making her supervisor might be an easier job for her. She doesn’t have to deal with entering hundreds of orders and answering 200 emails each day.
Well, there's the rumor mill and reality. Against all reason its possible that management recognizes that this person is better suited for taking care of other's needs and accomplishing work vicariously instead of doing the work directly.
Well, there's the rumor mill and reality. Against all reason its possible that management recognizes that this person is better suited for taking care of other's needs and accomplishing work vicariously instead of doing the work directly.
Yes, I also got the sense that this is a hypothetical problem from the OP. There are often surprises when the person that "everyone" thinks is going to be promoted/hired isn't the one who actually gets the job.
I used to work in data entry. I was the s#!tiest employee there. The job just wasn't challenging enough to motivate me to get up in the morning.
This year, i started working as a Staff Accountant. I outperformed someone who has been working in that field for over 20 years. She quit because she felt like the company wouldn't need her anymore since i started to automate alot of her tasks with a little bit of coding.
Maybe management realizes that the person has the capability and education to do something more advanced than menial tasks...
My coworker. Nice person, but always late, calls in sick frequently, and always behind on her work, everyone is pretty sure is being promoted to supervisor. One person said they can’t imagine since she is late each day and can’t finish her work. I disagree and think that making her supervisor might be an easier job for her. She doesn’t have to deal with entering hundreds of orders and answering 200 emails each day.
She might have been hired to be "fast tracked" to management. She was doing her current work just as an orientation period to learn the job. You see a lot of this in retail management. Have you seen "Undercover Boss"?
Happens all the time in education. Good teachers tend to stay in the classroom while ones who don't like teaching, or are marginal at it, go into administration.
Happens all the time in education. Good teachers tend to stay in the classroom while ones who don't like teaching, or are marginal at it, go into administration.
My fiance has told me the same. She is a HS chem teacher. She says that many of them usually move into administration, or on to the board, for political motivations. Or so I'm told.
Yep, common problem. The less competent someone is at their job, the more likely to be promoted. Whereas the competent people are too valuable to promote so they stay at the same job. Now some places somewhat recognize this and are willing to pay high performance people more to not be promoted but in general pay is related to promotion, not competence.
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