I hate being told, when rejected for a promotion at work, that I need to "Work on communication skills and team leading."
I spend the next six months ensuring I participate in team meetings, write down important notes for the next shift coming in, improving my training to the point that I am getting accolades from all the supervisors, trying to keep people on task during non-breaks, helping all my team members with problems, calling out and trying to hold up fellow team members as examples of hard workers, all while getting comments from my immediate supervisors on my improvement.
I apply for another promotion, get rejected. Guess what my "feedback" is. Just guess.
"You need to work on team leading..."
- Fair enough, my position doesn't get many opportunities to lead projects...
"...and communication."
- Can you extrapolate?
"What?"
- What do you mean by communication? Can I get specifics?"
"Well... the feedback comes from all of the supervisors who interviewed you and I am not sure what they meant when they put this down..."
I spend six fucking months playing their game, and they don't notice shit. They didn't talk to any of my immediate supervisors, I later discovered, and two people WHO DIDN'T INTERVIEW ME helped make the decision, and the supervisor who would be my boss with my new position, wasn't part of the final call.
Seriously. SERIOUSLY. I can understand not being as qualified or a right fit, but I am one of the finest "communicators" in the store. I have to be. It's in my job description, considering I do just about every piece of work around their except cart detail and registers.
I love how blatant it was they made some shit up to "challenge" me with, as opposed to some actual feedback.