In my company I am handling a complex project single handedly for last 2 years. My manager promised me promotion and good rating this cycle, but as it has come, nor was I given promotion nor good rating.
I was really upset and told that to manager. manager tried to explain me that he really fought very hard and he had nothing else to do.
Now he is literally asking me everyday for kt on the project I have been handling and asking me to take session for other teammates on the project so that they can also help me if needed.
I am smelling something fishy here. What do you think I should do ??
He is afraid that you know too much and if you leave he is f’d. So he is trying to reduce the dependency basically.
Old managerial tricks.
The happened with me as well, no hike and promotion. They skipped two promotions some of my colleagues got though. When I asked my manager about it, he was clueless. I tried fighting then my manager setup a call with HR for this rating and promotion issue. The HR gave me the shitty reason “your learning hours as less than 60 hours “. I mean people who were on bench they also got promotion and I am still stuck to A5.
Seeing this are not working and told my manager , I won’t be working until I get compensation letter with corrections. And I literally didn’t worked for 1 and half months. And now I am bench. Well It didn’t do anything good for me but at least that project is in more jeopardy than before. Gives me little relief.
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Maybe I'm overthinking or reading too much into it, forced KT is like a staged PIP. Maybe there are layoffs coming, they'll say your rating was low hence this is performance issue.
You won't be able to run away from KT, maybe just brush through the topics. Don't get into workflow and how to do it on ground
I never understand the need to resist while giving KT or need to create dependency.
Be a person who is irreplaceable because of his knowledge of industry(domain) or technology and your work ethics.
Knowledge about a project or application can always be learnt by anyone but technology or industry knowledge and work ethics cannot be built easily.
You won't be disturbed during leaves due to dependency on you
Your leaves will also be approved as others can handle work during your leaves.
Moreover if you don't have dependency due to being a bottleneck you will not be overloaded with work.
You can grab better opportunities when you see them and you will be able to say that no dependency as such.
So I see more harm than benefits of creating dependency.
Speaking this from 15 years of experience I worked as both IC(developer) and manager as well in past few years.
I second this.
Advice to OP:
Be so technically competent that your career is not dependent on single project/ company/ manager. These come and go - depending on situation of market, client, company, manager.
If and when time comes, move on. A skilled person will always be in demand.
Switching companies give better financial rewards than fighting for promotion in same company.
Sorry for this but what's KT, as far as I know, in Mumbai, students call it' keep term' or when a subject is not cleared.
Knowledge Transfer
KT is Knowledge Transfer
Its tata bye bye.
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