In my unit we have secret job title changes for some employees that are clearly promotions. The promotions don’t officially exist, there’s nothing you can specifically do to earn them, they’re never posted, and it’s also not announced.
Our boss has also claimed not to know what their own employee’s job titles are. You might say: what could I do to get up to the next level like so and so employee? Our boss would say: I don’t even know what you’re talking about. I didn’t know so and so employee had that job title!
Is that even possible? No! And yet, you actually have to sit there and pretend that it’s even the tiniest bit plausible that your boss does not know their own employees’ job titles. How else do you get through the day?
Just typing this out makes me feel so stupid and pathetic, which is exactly how my boss wants me to feel.