Pitfalls of being good at work
ONE of the first inequalities I discovered when I started working after college was that the good ones were always assigned to the difficult projects. I learned that firsthand when I pulled all stops to get ahead of my colleagues and showed my first boss that I was up to any task he assigned. When promotion season came, I was passed over for someone who successfully closed a project only the previous month while I was slaving to complete projects since I started. After a few weeks, I started looking for new work and I got my promotion in another organization.