Promotion Daw

Most of us are employees, we live through our monthly salaries. We pay credits cards, house, rent, food and many more through it. And like most of us, we ask for an increase in our paycheck, we want to be promoted to the next position. We would like our efforts to be recognized by it.  Recession, a lot of company closed, thousands of employees were terminated and my company is not exemption. They say we are lucky because no employee were terminated.

How? Well, new policies were implemented. For example, one is forced leaves were implemented. At least half of our leaves were planned which in a way is OK, maybe for some it is not especially if you are one of those who already exhausted all their leaves before the end of the year.  Two, freeze hiring was also done. Three, which in a way annoys me is "new promotion" policy was implemented.

Promotion does not only leads to increase in salary, it also says that your good hard work and effort is being recognized.

so why does the new promotion policy pisses me off? The old promotion policy was already a pain. For my first promotion it took me almost one and half year, for my second promotion it took me around 1 year. For me to be promoted for the 3rd time, depends on my grade on the PA, this is if there is a promotion every semester . How does the new promotion policy, promotion only happens once every fiscal year. Also, you have to reach a minimum grade to be able to go the next level. For example, a new employee already stayed with the company for almost 2 years and he has not been promoted even once. Maybe your thinking maybe he is not working enough? This is how he spent his time, he was already involved in a project while he was on probation. How many? 2 projects to be exact. After regularization, he became a member of another project. He is the only developer of that project which involves bug fixes, etc. Did he get promoted?, no he did not because of the new policy and the fact that he had not pass a certain exam inside the company. After that, he supports another development project. Until now he is not yet promoted. There are many like him, performance should be taken into account before any grade that is very objective.