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[–] • 3 pts

Agreed! Unless one has aspirations of ascending to the upper echelons of management, fuck the baby sitting career tract. I dabbled and flirted with it briefly. Whole lotta thanks but no thanks. Too many headaches, hours and too much actual net loss revenue. I've since pivoted back into a subject matter expert position and am once again master of my own autonomous domain.

[–] • 6 pts

And I'm sure many of these promotions come with little or no pay.

I was recently offered a new title that would add letters to my name and look good on a resume. It ultimately would have made me deal with people that are highly toxic, and offered no pay raise. I just kind of ignored the offer and it went away. Probably hurt me in other ways but fuck them I'm not dealing with that batch of people again.

[–] • 1 pt

It's not a promotion if you don't get some kind of extra compensation. Otherwise you're just agreeing to more duties. Good move ignoring it.

I guess the other move would have been to accept it, get the new title, and immediately try to find a new job. I've known people who did that.

[–] • 0 pt

immediately try to find a new job

That would be the only benefit.

[–] • 2 pts

Management sounded good 10 years ago. Now it's a shit job I don't want.

[–] • 2 pts

This perfectly describes my situation several times. I used to be a full time employee (FTE), but now I only work as a contractor because I don't want to lead a team anymore. I did that a few times, it's just not for me.

[–] • 2 pts

"I get to see my kids so much now," he told me. "You couldn't pay me enough to give that up."

I feel that for sure, but I never wanted management anyway. I make sure to let everyone know any job I get, if I don't have a job that requires me to log in as root then I don't want the job.

[–] • 2 pts

Same, beyond maybe a lead tech, moving farther up never appealed to me.

[–] • 1 pt

I considered going as far as lead, but that still comes with a ton of paperwork, talking to management, PowerPoint presentations, and many other things I hate.

[–] • 1 pt

Along with this, comes the additional DIE headaches. Hard enough to try to peel people off their phones, but trying to get a fat, blue haired, nigro lesbian, that identifies as an Albanian goat herder to actually work... No thanks.

[–] • 1 pt

The higher the level the higher the idiocracy

and if you are smart, there is no way you can bear it

[–] • 1 pt

I make $80/hr plus time and half for anything over 40 a week (which an extra 10 or so isn't uncommon to have especially if I want it). They keep trying to "promote" me to "site lead." That being the exact same job I have just now I deal with everyone's time cards/PTO/admin etc but don't actually control anything beyond doing the paperwork. It would also make me an exempt salaried employee at $175k. They are baffled as to why I don't want this "promotion."

[–] • 1 pt

I was a manager when I was younger. It was a thankless job and the pay was just pennies more than non management. Screw that. I have turned down management jobs 3 times at my current job. No way would I do that again and now it would be managing a gaggle of Indians. Nope.

I've been moved 'laterally' more times than I can count because they keep hiring DEI and need someone who will actually work. It's frustrating. I finally got a decent promotion and raise a few months ago but it doesn't feel like it with inflation and our electric being allowed to be raised 15%. Sigh. I doubt I will ever be able to retire. It just sucks.