Memes

trust me, it's even worse from the other side. my last job was in industrial production, and I only took it because I knew there would be an opening in their quality department in about a year, and I could get a leg up by learning about all the processes and such. so over the next year I work up to the second-highest position in the production department. the quality position finally opens up, I apply for it, all of the non-management people in both production and quality departments agree I'd be the best bet out of all the internal applicants. after two interviews they tell me they're going to look for an external candidate; they said I had everything they were looking for, but a lack of "project ownership experience." whose fault is that? this was the second job I'd ever had, and the first laid me off after only a few months during covid; if you want me to have experience you have to give me the opportunity. anyway they hired some other guy, and I kept working in production. a year later the other guy was still coming to me at least weekly to ask really basic questions about production procedures. I quit not long after that