Becoming a go-to person gets you promoted

Re:Becoming a go-to person gets you promoted by wredue on Sunday December 17, 2023 @12:33PM (#38674560)

This is also my experience. Being a go-to person led to 5 separate instances where a clearly underqualified person was promoted above me, with the company outright stating that I’m too valuable where I am (but also when I asked for more money, I wasn’t THAT valuable).

Then when I left they replaced me with 4 people cause losing a decade of deep dive rather than topical knowledge hurts.

Had they promoted me, I could have just trained a new person.

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Re:Becoming a go-to person gets you promoted by mhss on Sunday December 17, 2023 @01:04PM (#38674847)

You do what you gotta do. The only way to learn really how valuable (in a capitalist sense) you are is by getting offers (ideally multiple) elsewhere. I accepted a counter offer once and stayed 2 more years. Ultimately I left for the same reasons, I was hitting a ceiling and they were not budging. I increased my comp 50% and reduced my responsibilities another 50% with the next move.

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Re:Becoming a go-to person gets you promoted by ponector on Sunday December 17, 2023 @12:41PM (#38674655)

If they could continue without your knowledge, but with more people - maybe your knowledge was not as valuable as you think?

Also they greatly reduced bus factor. Looks like a win for the manager.

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