Anyone have information on the algorithm utilized for March promotions? Seems to be some odd results of unexpected promotions. Others on the list for promotion heard crickets.
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@g1 I am older as well. Definitely thinking age is a factor.
@ms evidently you are clueless.
@g1 I don't doubt anything that you stated. The number of HiPots in your grade pool may affect ratings, promotions and job assignments. I was an experience hire. I worked at CVX for 14 years and never got a promotion. I don't know how close you are till retirement but that can figure into their calculation. I agree that it would have been nice to get a promotion but the pay and benefits were good for my situation. From the perch I was sitting, thinking that they are going to do the right thing is a bridge too far.
Promotions are not announced nor decided in March. This is a troll
@fq I don’t appreciate you calling me entitled. As I stated, my former manager and our GM at the time and whoever else was involved in the 4Q2019 promotion reviews deemed my performance worthy of a promotion, and it went through the proper approval channels. Then “poof,” it’s gone when my manager in early 1Q2020 went to print out details from MDT to communicate the promotion to me. I found out about all this when she was leaving the company. At the time, I advised her to not pursue it further because we were in the middle of a pandemic and reorg, and I was concerned about making a fuss. I do still think that something went on behind the scenes that was not on the up-and-up. At a minimum my boss and our GM should have been informed if, say, promotions were frozen due to pandemic-related financial conditions (oil dropped like crazy, if you remember). I’m merely noting that, if the premise offered by someone else’s earlier post that promotions were based on % over CO & time in grade, and I had 2 EEs for my 2025 performance, then I am not understanding why there was no promotion this time. I am an older employee, and I am starting to think that age does play a factor in these decisions.
@ft according to me routinely getting more R&A’s than anyone else in my various boss’s chains of command over the years, I’d say you’re spot on… Yet I don’t feel entitled to anything.
@fs sigh, im sure you're lovely to work with.
@fp a year ago has absolutely no bearing on this year and situation. If I ask, you’ll probably tell me you go 2 EE’s this year. smh
In this go around, being selected for a job WAS the promotion. If you got promoted during the event, that’s a double promotion. Wait until 2027 when we go through this again. Time to start networking.
@ek sounds like you think you’re entitled to a promotion, you’re not. It’s not illegal to not promote people. That is some of the d-mbest s-it I’ve ever heard. The entitled ones work for tech companies; bye, Felicia.
@fn year before.
@fj how did you get 4 EE’s in a two category system?
@ek ha, 4 EE's and no promotion. hard to find motivation after that.
@ca That is very disappointing. Even with two Exceeds Expectations and no promotion since ~2013, I am still stuck. Even more peculiar is that in 2019 my former manager HAD gotten approval for my promotion, but it “disappeared” when she went to print out details from MDT in early 2020. I am really questioning what kind of potentially illegal shenanigans are going on behind closed doors. I have been a solid performer for decades. At this point I have lost all faith that this company will do the right thing because there is a significant lack of transparency regarding the promotion process.
gotta 2 hand it
@b9
You have the algorithm!
They did promotions after the reorg. They didn’t consider those who were going to EOI or didn’t get selected for a job. So naturally, your current GMs decided whether you got promoted or not. But it came from the list of people who met the criteria. There were none of this soliciting of promotion candidates like past years.
@bp Interesting
Did they ask the department GM of the org into which the employee currently reports or the org the employee was in prior to Oct 1?
@b9 that might be true in past years. This year it was pretty d-mb. HR ran a report for time in grade and %CO.
They did not ask supervisors at all. The people who were over 5 years in grade and 105% CO were sent to the department GMs, and they made the decision of who to promote without asking supervisors
Yes, the official algorithm is this:
How much your boss likes you + how much they care about supporting you = promotion likelihood.