‘Excellent is just a trap’: Boss refuses to promote top-performing employee because they're too valuable in their current role, and gives the position to a coworker who barely hits quota

When being too good at your job becomes a career liability…We were always told that we have to give 100% in everything we do if we want to "succeed". What is success, anyways? I don't want to get into the philosophical road just yet, but I think it is a question worth asking. Anyways… we grow up thinking that we have to be the best at everything we do and life will pay us back with the things we want and deserve, of course.Well, this employee can totally disagree with us, because their experience at their job proves the exact opposite.For starters, they were always the top-performing employee. They not only were the best at reaching their goals and targets, but also were the ones who would go beyond their job descriptions and really wanted to be good at what they did. They fixed broken workflows and also had the best relationship with everyone on the team. Obviously, they want to grow with the company and thought they really had a chance at doing this when a management position was opened a month ago.Naturally, he was the first one who applied for the role and was really hoping to land it. But life has its tricks because the person who ends up getting the role was someone who bare…

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