The email confirming my promotion arrived on a quiet Tuesday morning. I read it three times just to be sure. After five years of late nights, impossible targets, and being overlooked while others advanced, my moment had finally come. HR had approved it. My manager had signed off. Even my new office assignment had been shared.
I allowed myself a rare celebration that evening, believing my life was about to change. Two days later, everything collapsed. I was called into the same office where congratulations had been offered and told, without explanation, that the promotion had been withdrawn. No misconduct. No performance issue.…CONTINUE READING