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Nobody who works in a holding company should ever be “promising” someone a promotion. A promotion is not promised until you are holding a letter from your company that says “congratulations on your promotion to [new title] and [new salary].” Anything that happens prior to that is a recommendation at best, a momentary shared hope at worst. Sorry your friend didn’t realize that but yeah your manager also sounds like a weenie.
Who cares about ethics? He’s getting jerked around. Time to walk.
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*Especially* in a period where there is so much uncertainty and all the political favors and sway in the world might mean nothing to a holding co, no manager should ever be UTTERING THE WORD promotion much less promising it.
If the holding company said no, wouldn't the manager have led with that? They could absolve themselves of any blame for the decision. So that part seems like a lie, especially after saying straight up to them that they're not ready.
As much as we’d like to think all managers act in a perfectly coordinated, put-together, buttoned-up, everything-well-thought-out way, we don’t - and as a director too, I imagine you’ve experienced this too. I personally don’t like to promise promotions ever unless I’ve put it in and gotten sign-off that it’s happening. But I’ve had bosses who promised me promotions that didn’t happen, and even asked me to let people know they were going to get promoted and I held back because I didn’t want to promise something that might not happen. Doesn’t mean it was unethical - it might have been the manager’s honest intention and then something happened. Whether the holding company or not. But it’s not a promotion until you’re actually promoted.
My incompetent, lying, former boss did this to me, and I turned down a higher paying offer based on her word. Never. Again.
Oof yeah in agency land, show me the writing please
It’s amazing how little guidance is provided to managers regarding promotion readiness and communications