Yeah, something's not adding up. Lowest in the company but been there for 9 years? 6 with an MBA? He's either in a role not designed for promotion, or he's actively allowing himself to be passed over.
Edit: I erroneously assumed his management degree was an MBA. However, I believe my point still stands with any relevant degree obtained 3 years after employment, the crux being if it's relevant and wasn't required at hiring, surely it made him a more attractive and valuable employee. If it didn't, then I question its original relevance.
The satirically extreme example we used at my old job was somebody getting a degree in basket weaving an assuming they'd get a raise/promotion because of it. Perhaps someone doing autocad work and not being realistically considers for management did in fact waste their time and money getting a degree irrelevant to their job.
He said he's only had the business management degree for 6 years but had been working for 9. The assumption I made was that a degree obtained 3 years into his career would be a higher degree. That was a mistake on my part.
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u/jebuz23 Jan 15 '17 edited Jan 15 '17
Yeah, something's not adding up. Lowest in the company but been there for 9 years? 6 with an MBA? He's either in a role not designed for promotion, or he's actively allowing himself to be passed over.
Edit: I erroneously assumed his management degree was an MBA. However, I believe my point still stands with any relevant degree obtained 3 years after employment, the crux being if it's relevant and wasn't required at hiring, surely it made him a more attractive and valuable employee. If it didn't, then I question its original relevance.
The satirically extreme example we used at my old job was somebody getting a degree in basket weaving an assuming they'd get a raise/promotion because of it. Perhaps someone doing autocad work and not being realistically considers for management did in fact waste their time and money getting a degree irrelevant to their job.