Are you a brown nose at work? Do you work with any?

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Hate them. I really think there's something wrong with you if you need to brown nose to get ahead, and something even worse wrong with you if you walk all over your supposed colleagues to get ahead. As noted, the brown nosers always get promoted, but the vast majority of them I wouldn't put in charge of watching a kettle boil. Luckily, working nights on a small team of 5, with a newly appointed TL who's still not fully transitioned from colleague to management (and he admits himself he's finding it hard to change), I don't have to deal with it much. Still get all the emails from the day team, which includes the brown nosing.

I was promoted to "Tier 2" support in my last job, which was basically the step below Team Leader. I lasted about 6 months before I was about to quit, but luckily they made us redundant. Myself and TL had many a chat about how I wasn't "stepping up" and becoming management material. And she was right, I'm not management material, because I can't sugar coat stuff, which is apparantly required in order to talk to upper management. And there was me thinking honesty is better than BS. Nope. Didn't help it was an American based company, and by jesus do they like to circle jerk each other, instead of dealing with the actual issues. I won't be going for promotion again, unless it's lateral and doesn't put me in charge of people.