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My Question of the Day for 26 August 2009
My Question of the Day: You are asked to train the person who got the promotion to the position you wanted. What do you do?
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I do remember one incident, not exactly the same but close. I was working as a store-man driving a fork truck. It was well know in the factory that I was a geek and good with computers. The engineers would often ask me for advise due to them being mechanical or electronic, not computer engineers. A job came up in the department for an assistant. I went for the job but did not get it.
A couple of weeks later, there is me in the warehouse driving the forktruck. The head engineer came to me with the new assistant in tow. This is the guy that did not give me the job and accompanied by the muppet they did give the job to. He did it without a blink he asked me to solve a computer problem they and the whole department could not figure. I knew the answer it was obvious. I looked him up and down and told him to F%&$ Off! Quite loudly. It was the talk of the whole factory for a while.
A few months later a new vacancy came up in the engineering dept. I was given the nod and the job was mine.
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LikeDislikeIf it’s part of your job, you put your personal feelings aside and you train that person and give it 100%.
The next thing you do depends on the answer to a few soul searching questions: did you just want the job or were you really the best candidate? Try as best as you can to objectively compare the other person’s qualifications/work habits to yours; do they possess something you don’t? Ask the person that made the promotion decision if you were being considered and why you were not selected, and share your career goals and ask what you need to do to accomplish them
If you find that you were not qualified, work harder, find a mentor and be prepared for the next opportunity.
If you believe you were the best candidate, discuss the situation with an objective trusted collaeague, minister, mentor. If you still believe you were the best person for the position, then it’s time to start talking to other companies and sharing what you have to offer to them
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LikeDislikeI would trust that I just barely missed the promotion, and that If I hit this one out of the park, a better opportunity will present itself, and the bosses will remember how I stepped up and promote me to the new position, which will probably suit me better anyway.
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LikeDislikeBecause it is my job, and I am being paid to do it, I would acquiesce. But I would be bitter in doing it.
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