I am due a promotion for the work I have done recently. Here's an analogy: I want the Oscar for this year's performance, not the Lifetime Achievement Award.

No way!!! My employer knows better then to offer me a promotion!! I've made it clear from the start I'd never do any job but the one offered at my initial hiring. That, my friend, will never, EVER, change.

Yes, I do, and by the way, the benefits suck around here to.

Of course! Doesn't everyone? Oh wait! That's right ... I'm retired. There IS no place to be promoted to! Heh!

If you think just being around earns you a promotion because you "have experience" then you're a fool. I work for a very large global corporation and they are heavy in a "WFR" program at the moment. WFR stands for "Work Force Reduction". Care to take a guess at who gets WFR'd? It the "experienced" people who stagnated and stopped *increasing* their value to their employer. Sure...experience is good and knowing your job better than anyone has value...but not near the value you may think. People can be trained and grown into positions. People that choose not to increase their skill sets are prime targets to be eliminated...not promoted. I say a supplication every day before I go in to work: "How can I, today, show and increase my value to my employer and managers and enjoy the process?" That is my focus and it works. I've gotten performance bonuses every month since I started using that supplication and I've definitely been learning new tasks and growing like weeds on fertilizer. "Experienced" people are dropping like flies all around me. Business is fluid and needs to adapt to change. Those that settle in and get comfortable with their position and don't grow beyond it are dead weight in the long term big picture, no matter how good they may be at their position.

Yes... I'd like to be promoted into a JOB... I mean I have 42 years of work experience, 30 since I was 18, 25 of that as a programmer, and five years since I worked for a salary (I'm on SS Disability). In that time, I have had a knee operation (2 months after tearing my quad tendon from my kneecap) and a year of rehab. Then a year of waiting for Voc Rehab to get the paperwork together to get me hand-controls and a lift for my scooter in my van. I've been looking, except for those two years for the past five years (and even then, I looked... I just didn't find anything I could do at home, where I was stuck.) I've dropped my salary requirements at least 50% from what I was making before the job was eliminted, and STILL can find nothing. And with the cost of gas and commute distances, I HAVE to make a certain amount for it to replace my SS Dis and cover the bills THAT covers. I can do a LOT of things from programming to general office work, but am now limited due to mobility problems. Here's the whole story (and I'm 53, now) http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/620426 Any ideas? :-(

No, experience doesn't necessarily insure knowledge. Just because someone says that they have been driving for twenty years, doesn't make them a good driver. Look at all the kids coming out of school that aren't good spellers. (12 yrs. experience)

Even better - I'm about to get a new job :) I will actually start a trial period next week (and because of that I will be scarce here on AB). If they like me, they will hire me, and I will finally get away from my present job.

Well, if I wasn't self employed, yes, because I work my ass off.

Nope. My employer pays me VERY well based on my experience. I couldn't ask for much more.