#like no you don't understand the stress is a default settings and I started studying like ... 9-10 hours ago

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"I hate my life (finals)" I sign as I chunk down another gulp of energy drink, preparing to write the exam in 4 and a half hours with exactly 0 hours of sleep and a monster energy drink running through my veins ...

Anyway! Good news for 'monsters don't deserve hugs' readers! If I don't pass out the moment I hit the mattress after the test you can expect an update in a couple hours. Yay!

Bad news for 'smiling masks and golden crowns' readers: the author is still stuck with nothing more than 1 page worth of writing and still has 3 exams to deal with so sadly you might have to wait for a few more weeks. You're not forgotten about though, the update is on my to do list sooner rather than later

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"We don't promote our best"

It's a rumor going around that the best don't get promoted, because they make the company money. I'd give it about 9% accuracy. They'll definitely be blamed for the company exploding when they leave.

And they're not promoted because they're so busy jobbing, they don't have the time to rub elbows with management. Or meet frivolous goals that management expects. The kind that don't matter in the long run but scream "team player".

Organizing company parties for example. Nothing wrong with that. Morale is valuable. But it doesn't exactly get the work done.

Promoting the person doing the job, allows them time to do more important things like writing style guides, technical manuals, and processes. All things that help the others around them do their job better. Things, typically expected from the people promoted into management, who then ask the jobbers to write those things because they were too busy with the company party to consider it.

I sound bitter. Maybe I am.

It could literally save you hiring outside consulting to promote that one individual. Which companies often hire outside consulting to cover process improvement, and they cost money to do so.

It's also why people like me studied process improvement, to be more valuable to the company. Because that's what's expected of us. It's also part of the reason recruiters see my resumè and throw it out. They think "nobody can know as many things as s/he says she does."

I have videos proving my knowledge and experience you can review. But that's beside the case. An example of my bitter heart.

The fact is, the most knowledgeable and experienced among us are often overlooked because we're "hard to get along with". You know why? Because when we see somebody at the same level as us acting like they're fresh out of training and they don't understand what they should already know.

Things like acronyms, key words, common design or work patterns. How to use the tools that come in the default toolkit. Then we start treating you like you don't know what you're talking about. We put the "kid gloves" on. And understandably, since we're "the same level", you feel patronized that I have the gall to explain to you that "clearing your cache" will help your browser get the new build off the website.

Or "righty tightly, lefty loosey" or any number of simple concepts.

And every time you say something dumb we say "aw, isn't that cute."

If you aren't knowledgeable in the job you're doing, it your job to learn. And that's why we don't insult you to your face when we know you don't know.

Cuz everybody has to start somewhere. But you also shouldn't be upset that we noticed.

In Short; management needs to take note of who is actually taking the initiative to train people in making their jobs smoother. Whether or not they're teaching above or below their rank. And, not be such a baby about it when they're called out.

And if somebody like that does get set off, maybe take note of how much stress they're under. Yeah, counsel them if they need it. But also know, their stress levels don't lower until you take work off their plate. (And no, that's not what demotions are for if they're overloaded from being short staffed. Or being the support column.)