Do the best workers usually get promoted to management?

Best meaning more creative, more ingenuity, stability, more motivation, better communication skills? Or is it something else that causes promotion at your place of employment or in your line of work?

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And biggest phoney gets promoted.

Funny how so many cliches have a grain of truth in them.

creativity is the kiss of death. :scared:

good politicians who make their screwups appear to be someone else's fault.

I'm one of the best workers and I never want to be in management. Blech.

It's a worker-run cooperative, however.

I had a boss tell me: "Cream Rises to the Top"

To which I replied: "So does Scum"

To adjust for this attitude, I had to earn myself a Doctorate in Computer Science just to earn a decent salary.

Only little sycophants who make it real clear that they are willing to be the top guys' (and they ARE guys!) yard dogs.

you have to be 5'4" weigh 98lbs and have a name like Debby or Candy or any name ending in 'y'. No experience and no brains.
I work in a factory.

First you must show all of the traits Snoggera mentioned.

If you are so motivated, and you want to advance (some of our people do not, and the store manager is very careful only to advance those who want to be advanced) you then attend Department Supervisor Training. Held once per quarter, twelve potential managers are trained in the Home Depot way of management. This takes a week. Supposedly it's not a Home Depot requirement that you attend DST before becoming a DH, but no store manager in the company will make someone a DH without it.

After you graduate from DST, you are then observed to be sure you are still progressing.

If you are then deemed suitable for advancement, when a department that you can run needs a department head, you'll be placed in that position. If you're not artistically-inclined you won't become DH of the wallpaper department, for instance.

Once you serve a year as a DH and get a good review, you can become an assistant manager.

After two years as an assistant manager you can become a store manager, but to do so you'll have to be relocated at company expense. (Check this shit out: if you're relocated to become a store manager and you can't sell your old house within a year, they buy it from you.)

getting promoted that is.

It has everything to do with office politicking and making it known that you are a "playa," so to speak. This is not a bad thing in and of itself, because you can be deadly competent and promotable. It's just that it isn't required. You can be competent after you get the bigger paycheck.

At least that's been my experience in both the public and private sector.