Woman’s bleak conspiracy theory about the kinds of workers who will ‘NEVER’ get promoted is hailed as ‘painfully true’
A millennial content creator’s conspiracy theory about why the most talented and hardworking people will ‘never’ get promoted has been labeled ‘painfully true’ by disgruntled employees.
Jacqueline Morris regularly posts about her life on her TikTok account, where she has amassed more than 7,500 followers.
The Maine-based social media professional recently took to the video sharing platform to discuss something different from her usual content. She started the conversation about “company structures” because she claimed that being nice to your employees and being a good worker won’t get you anywhere.
In a viral video, which has been viewed more than 5.6 million times to date, Jacqueline – who did not make her work public – suggested that employers refuse to give more money to employees who are friendly and good at their jobs because they ‘ you know, they can just keep serving it to you on a platter and you eat it with a smile.’
A millennial content creator has revealed her ‘painfully true’ conspiracy theory claiming that employees who are friendly and good at their jobs will ‘never’ get promoted
Jacqueline Morris regularly posts about her life on the TikTok account, where she has amassed more than 7,500 followers
She captioned the clip: “But if I take a week off everything will fall apart? It is not right.’
At the beginning of the video, she told her followers that her business “conspiracy theory” is the “hill.” [she] will continue to die.’
“If you are both good at your job and pleasant to work with, and if you have a good personality, you will never get promoted,” she explained.
She noted that those in junior positions believed they had to be friendly and productive to get promoted, while those in ‘executive’ positions were neither friendly nor good at their jobs.
“If you’re a VP or director level, you can be very good at your job or pleasant to work with, you don’t have to be both,” she added.
Jacqueline claimed that the people who did the actual work were often left at the bottom of the corporate pool, without receiving any recognition or validation for their achievements.
“If you’re here where all the real work is being done and there’s no direction being given, no strategy being set, they’re never going to let in an employee who is both good at the job and good at keeping a smile on his face while If you do the work, climb the ladder,” she explained.
The content creator noted that this was because employers knew that friendly employees would not complain.
In a viral video, Jacqueline – who did not make her work public – suggested that employers refused to give more money to employees who were friendly and good at their jobs
People on the internet flooded the comments section and agreed with the content creator
She added, “They know they can keep serving you things on a silver platter and you’ll eat it with a smile on your face.”
People on the internet flooded the comments section and agreed with the content creator.
One person said: ‘Performance penalty.’
Someone else wrote: ‘Former HR here, you’re absolutely right.’
Another user added: ‘This isn’t a conspiracy theory… this is a fact. Make yourself indispensable and you will be indispensable in the same position forever.”
“This is painfully true,” a fourth typed.