i stopped covering for everyone and somehow got promoted…
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i stopped covering for everyone and somehow got promoted for it
For years i was basically the office workhorse, the one who picked up every slack, fixed everyone elses mess, and quietly took on bits of jobs that werent even mine because i thought thats how youd get noticed. I asked to move up three separate times and every time i got the same line about how they could "see my potential" and just needed to wait for the right moment.
Last month i finally hit my limit after watching someone whod been there half the time i had get bumped up over me, mostly because she was mates with one of the senior lot.
Something in me just went, and i decided i was done bending over backwards for a place that clearly wasnt going to reward it.
So i stopped. I stopped quietly fixing other peoples work, i stopped saying yes to every "could you just sort this out for me" that landed on my desk, and i started doing my own actual job and nothing more, letting other people own their own stuff for once.
And heres the bit i genuinely cant get my head round. My manager pulled me in yesterday and gave me a proper bump in pay "for showing real leadership and focus lately." He actually said im "so much more on top of things" and that the quality of my work has gone up massively, when all ive really done is stop drowning myself in everybody elses problems.
It honestly does my head in. Everything i thought would get me ahead, the overworking, the saying yes to everything, being the reliable mug who never pushed back, was apparently working against me the whole time. And the second i stopped, suddenly im the one whos "stepped up." Corporate logic makes absolutely no sense to me.
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For years i was basically the office workhorse, the one who picked up every slack, fixed everyone elses mess, and quietly took on bits of jobs that werent even mine because i thought thats how youd get noticed. I asked to move up three separate times and every time i got the same line about how they could "see my potential" and just needed to wait for the right moment.
Last month i finally hit my limit after watching someone whod been there half the time i had get bumped up over me, mostly because she was mates with one of the senior lot.
Something in me just went, and i decided i was done bending over backwards for a place that clearly wasnt going to reward it.
So i stopped. I stopped quietly fixing other peoples work, i stopped saying yes to every "could you just sort this out for me" that landed on my desk, and i started doing my own actual job and nothing more, letting other people own their own stuff for once.
And heres the bit i genuinely cant get my head round. My manager pulled me in yesterday and gave me a proper bump in pay "for showing real leadership and focus lately." He actually said im "so much more on top of things" and that the quality of my work has gone up massively, when all ive really done is stop drowning myself in everybody elses problems.
It honestly does my head in. Everything i thought would get me ahead, the overworking, the saying yes to everything, being the reliable mug who never pushed back, was apparently working against me the whole time. And the second i stopped, suddenly im the one whos "stepped up." Corporate logic makes absolutely no sense to me.
#business
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