I think upper management is purposely keeping me down

[BusinessManIT]

You are too valuable in your current position. There may be other factors as the other posters have said.

"So when the going gets tough, the tough get going... to where the going is easier." Ben Bova - sci fi writer.

[DorianRo]

I never understood the whole "Keeping the valuable employee down because their too valuable at the position they are in " mindset which is rampant in the private sector today. You know what that does? Make the employee look elsewhere. Any company thats caught doing this there should be severe penalties because you're not going to find too many valuable employees anymore with a constant revolving door of turnover who have little to no experience.

Common sense indicates its smarter to push your valuable employee up the chain than lose them ENTIRELY from your company. No employee worth their salt is going to stick around at a company that holds them back. . Idiocy at its finest

[Left-handed]

Originally Posted by DorianRo

I never understood the whole "Keeping the valuable employee down because their too valuable at the position they are in " mindset which is rampant in the private sector today. You know what that does? Make the employee look elsewhere. Any company thats caught doing this there should be severe penalties because you're not going to find too many valuable employees anymore with a constant revolving door of turnover who have little to no experience.

Common sense indicates its smarter to push your valuable employee up the chain than lose them ENTIRELY from your company. No employee worth their salt is going to stick around at a company that holds them back. . Idiocy at its finest

It's one of those things that never really made sense to me. Short term thinking at its finest. Many struggling businesses operate with an emphasis on day-to-day operations, with only some emphasis put on 'real' long term goals and planning. This is usually a sign that the company isn't doing that well. The whole "let's just try to stay afloat day by day" mentality is not a mindset or culture of a business that is doing any real growing or thriving.

As any sensical person would advise, whether in the business world or personal life, you need to have long term contingency or growth plans. When all you're doing is struggling to get by day to day without considering long term planning (i.e. losing employees), you're setting up the business to be lackluster, or worse, a failure. I don't know many businesses, outside of churn and burn low end retail, that are successful by operating this way.

[katanagash]

Originally Posted by Suburban_Guy

How would you know that they would beg you not to leave if you resigned?

My supervisors can't even calculate the idea of me leaving. They appreciate what I do on a day-to-day basis, but I have a strong hunch they think I'm complacent, I can't get through a job interview, and pretty much think I'm not going anywhere in life. It really does hurt my feelings that other people would think that about me, but that's essentially why I know they won't take it well when I make the big move. Even if they don't beg, they're still going to interrogate my motives.