Tfw you get passed over for a promotion because you don't participate in all the gossip and politics...

>tfw you get passed over for a promotion because you don't participate in all the gossip and politics, even though you're objectively the most productive amongst your coworkers

How you think of yourself and how you really are tend to be vastly different things.

Everyone's productivity is made available. It's a fact that I outperform everyone else.

take it up with your manager and start looking for a new job so you have leverage

Maybe the promotion included duties that required you to interact with others. Your manager noticed that you don't have the ability to socialize well with others.
Typically as you move up, you have more meetings and brainstorming.

Good on you for being "productive"

But I'm also curious what you consider "politics/ gossip".

Can confirm. I see shit bags post on Facebook about how they deserve the promotion I just snagged.

I'm in the other camp. I'm not very good at my job and I've been put into a position I'm not qualified for. I just play the social game, because I would be terrible at actually doing my job. It's better to find other people to do work and piggy back on their success, it's surprising how much credit for their work people will give you if you make them feel validated and pretend that you've been helping them.

I basically spend all my day shitposting on Veeky Forums and delegating my responsibilities to other people, arranging favors for people, and making life easier for the productive people.

I like to think of myself as a semi-benign parasite. Sure I feed off other people's success, but I try and encourage them and make their life easier in the process.

Since I get shifted around or promoted frequently enough, no one seems to notice that I never really do anything. I'm just hoping I can somehow make a career out of this behavior, because it's too late to learn anything useful

fuck it then

I'm just going to start fucking around on my phone all and posting on Facebook all day just like they do.

There's no incentive to work hard

Get another job if you are not appreciated you whiny nigger. You are rewarding your employer for being an idiot if, what you say is accurate, by staying on.

Yup. Do this. But also meet with your employer and let it be known exactly why they made such a terrible choice. If you are actually the most productive worker, then you need to make that clear to them so they realize how stupid they were to allow this injustice that caused you to leave. Basically pour salt in their wound.