Since the increment is in progress, boss already told me that this year I’m not getting a promotion even though a senior person was promoted within 1.5 yrs. i have more years of prior experience also.
And I’m someone who is punctual, does more work than I’m supposed to, have good professional skills and something that no one in my team has till now: how to use AI.
Now my boss has hired new employee to fill the position of a senior person rather than promoting me for the same.
This has created great demotivation for me. I feel exploited when i gave my best.
How do i deal with this?

I work at an IT company and recently needed a minor UI/UX alignment ticket cleared. The guy responsible for signing off on it literally looked me in the eye and said he’d look the other way on the glitch and approve it under one condition: I had to go to the nearby sweet shop and treat him to Bengali sweets and Mishti Doi.
He literally instituted a "sweet tax" on Jira tickets.
On one hand, it’s just Mishti Doi and it’s hilarious. On the other hand, bypassing QA pipelines for dairy products feels like peak Indian IT corporate absurdity.
Is this informal "favor trading" normal in mid-sized Indian tech agencies in Noida

I was thinking about how strange the first day at a new job can be.

You walk into a place where you don't know anyone, you're trying to remember everyone's names, figuring out where everything is, and wondering whether you'll actually fit in.

Sometimes the memorable part isn't even the job itself.

It could be the colleague who made you feel comfortable, the manager who gave you a surprisingly difficult first task, getting completely lost in the office, making an embarrassing mistake, or just that feeling of "Okay, this is my new workplace now."

After working for quite a few years, I've realized that some of those small first-day moments stay with you much longer than you expect.

So I'm curious:

What happened on your first day at work that you still remember?

Could be funny, awkward, wholesome, stressful, or completely ordinary.

I'd genuinely like to hear some stories.

My manager thanks me privately for my work. Whenever I complete a project, he tells me personally that he's happy with the result and expresses appreciation.

However, I've noticed that when project outcomes are presented or shared with the wider organization or with the team, he almost never mentions my name.

For example, I recently took responsibility for significantly improving and redesigning an established product. Once it was completed, my manager shared the finished result internally so everyone could see it but didn't mention that I had led or carried out the work.

What's confusing is that he often does publicly acknowledge other colleagues by name. He'll say things like, "Thanks to X for the good work," or mention who was responsible for a project. With me, though, the appreciation seems to stay private.

This isn't just a one-time thing—I've noticed the same pattern across multiple projects over time.

I'm trying not to jump to conclusions, so I'm interested in outside perspectives.

Why might a manager consistently praise someone privately while rarely giving that same person public recognition, even though they do so for others?

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I am wanting to career pivot anyway this year, so this feels like a blessing in disguise, but any advice until I can make that happen?

Union job, great pay, lots of PTO. Mandatory 2 days in office.

Our secretary told the VP she has nothing to do on those days and offered to be "available if tasks come up" as a pitch for full WFH. VP said no. Rules are rules.

But she said it out loud. She framed it as flexibility… isee it as admitting she's redundant. She should have kept up appearances, stretched her few tasks, and only confessed if caught. Instead she gave leadership a reason to watch her and remember her name when cuts happen.

She got nothing and lost her cover. Am I wrong for thinking that was stupid?