The REAL Reason Your Career Is Stuck...Nobody Likes You.

High school truly never ends.

It's not just "nobody likes you", it is also because if you perform so well at your role, you become too valuable in that role and they do not want to promote you. That's happened to me. Even after I left, they phoned me back many years later and tried to get me back in that role while trying to sell it as something new! 😂

The more you volunteer for tough projects and you succeed, the more work will be dumped on you for no reward. It’s the sad truth in many companies.

He is so right. Y’all thought popularity and politics ended in high school. Na bruh think again

I learned a long time ago to never assume that your hard work is being noticed on its own.

This one hurts, but it’s all true. I’ve realized that I’m not cut out for the politics of corporate America. I’m too nice, too honest, and too ethical. I sit with who I genuinely like in the lunchroom and don’t care what anyone else thinks. Upper management has always noticed and liked me, but I’ve found that the only way to get a good salary bump or more responsibility was to leave. Always felt that thinking you’re just too good at your job to get promoted sounds a bit arrogant. But maybe there’s some truth to it. I once confronted a regional bank manager as to why they kept moving me to different branches but never a promotion. Her answer surprised me. She said I was all they had, being flexible, not a complainer, and straightened out audits. Considering my pitiful 1.4% annual raises, I was not flattered.

Don't seek promotion within the same company, seek promotion outside, you get to expand your knowledge, skills, experiences and toolset, and your salary grows way faster than promotion within the same company. So there's a lot more positives if "Nobody Likes You" than if the whole company likes you. I'm starting a new role but my CV is already updated to land the next job ASAP

What I've realized is I just don't belong in a place like this.

Kind of true, but social skills are only part of it. The hard truth is management really doesn't want to promote the most skilled people who actually get the work done. Lesson is, if you want to get promoted, then be good enough, but not great at your job. You'll be too hard to replace

One person to be concerned with at the workplace YOURSELF! Watch your back! You don't have friends at work! Thank you Brian for "keeping it real" with us. Your videos have helped me in my career as they are true, real, and simple!!!❤

I fully agree with you Brian, in this sad but true video. I've seen some real bull-artists rise up the corporate ladder, simply from talking to the supervisors all day about random non-work-related stuff. What makes it worse is if a person is introverted, has autism, or simply is into different things to their colleagues, they are shunned into oblivion, no matter how hard/smart they work.

I'm not saying that this video is giving bad advice, but I spent almost 12 years in a job I loved making friends, taking on projects and hanging out with people outside of work. And I still never got promoted. So I am living proof that sometimes doing all of this isn't always enough. As an introvert, it wasn't always easy for me to do these things. But I genuinely thought that if I made friends with the right people and worked hard enough I would eventually get promoted. There are other factors to success as well, often well outside your control.

Remember in school growing up when teachers tell you life is not a popularity contest. Well turns out that’s all life is to succeed

Workplace politics trumps everything. If you’re not loved by the bosses, you’re toast. What bothers me the most is the fakery in corporate environments. This is why I’ve checked out and haven’t returned. Refreshing

It's true. They don't like me. I think it is because I don't like them.

So nepotism and cronyism huh? Got it. I'll never be promoted because I graduated highschool and refuse to return to it.

The best advice I ever got was no matter what your job title is, your job is quite simply “make your manager look great at all times no matter what”. Nothing more, nothing less

I don't do politics, & I really abhor workplace cliques... all you can really do is accept all challenges/opportunities and work to a standard that you can derive some level of satisfaction, invest in yourself and always keep your options open. Funny how when the proverbial hits the fan Management suddenly remembers your name and needs help to start shovelling 🤣

I will forever remember my last full time job. I was laid off after they sold out. They made it look like they were going to keep me but didn't. They changed my desk and I was now sharing with my coworker from the company bought out. Next to our desk was a desk used by a young in college intern. He only worked a small number of hours. He was a hard worker and striving to do a good job to prove himself. One day, his leader came to our desk area looking for him. I do not recall our exact conversation but believe I may have asked how the young man was doing. His manager said he was doing too well and had finished the work they gave to him. He said he was not happy about this because it was making him look bad. I was flabbergasted that his good work could make this manager look bad and he was not happy about it. What? You Gotta be kidding, I thought!

If nobody likes you that means you took care of you first and stood up for yourself. This isnt high school were I have to be popular, however networking with right people in or our workplace should serve a gain for YOU!!! Not the company.