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Different people have different rates of progress. I personally have been promoted internally 3 times over the course of nearly 8 years. Which means I have taken a step up once every 2.5 years or so.
Thanks for sharing!
If they know the promotion is definitely coming I can see that being frustrating. But some companies still work on a timeline where everything takes forever. Still, that would make me worried. I've seen examples where companies have promised things and then said something changed. So I'm always skeptical of things that are scheduled to happen but seem to be stuck.
Thanks for sharing!
That seems pretty typical from what I’ve seen in my own career. I was queued up to just move positions for about six months before anything happened let alone a promotion.
At GE you only get promoted by moving jobs. It’s very rare otherwise.
Either the plan was in the works for months and the announcement happens to be the official start time or months. My internal promotion didn't actually occur until 2 months after it was supposed to and 3 months after I was promised the promotion. It got awkward and there were lots of emails back and forth about it, with me cc'd.
About a week longer than it takes to turn in your two-week notice!
Are you UAW, or non-union? Just curious. I have a job proposal coming to me any day now.
In a time where the business I used to work for was going through management restructure and high personnel turnover rates, I was one of 2 engineering personnel left in the department (long story). After 8 years of faithful working, I invited a talk with the company CEO about promotion. He agreed and promised it. In the meantime the company hired a new (2nd in a short time) engineering director who would manage the promotion. After several months of constant reminders and questions inquiring where this was in progress, the director finally sprung the promotion on me without notice. I was given a letter of acknowledgement and measly 3% raise. I was asked to sign my name. Given all the circumstances I'd been through by that point I accepted and received the title change. No more than 2 months later after being newly gaslighted to step up, do more, deal with complaints and reminders the new position would require greater output, I had a PIP sprung on me with a barrage of petty and confusing complaints. Story short, I was let go some time later after crushing stress and micromanagement. Hindsight, the promotion was obligatory because the CEO gave me his personal word. The delay was more than likely a conversation with the CFO about the coming downturn, and plans to set me up for failure and removal. The new management couldn't care less about my 8 years of contributions and performance. My advice is not to second guess your personal spider senses about things that don't feel appropriate and feel out of expectation, at least from your own prudent perspective.