What Have You Got To Lose?

Passed Over for Promotion & Pay Raise:
What To Do (and Not Do)
Right After
to Get Another Shot

What Have You Got To Lose?

How To Not Give a F*** A-N-D Get Promoted (2/6)

…However, [see the beginning here],  UNLIKE with relationships, I won’t advise you to be “single” work wise, because the analogy would be being unemployed.

Furthermore, I STRONGLY advise you, that even if you can AFFORD being unemployed -DON’T! For a few reasons, most of which I’ve gone through, in detail, in the video “what NOT to do”.  The gist of it is, that it hinders getting a new job.

But another reason, NOT in that video is that: Without a job, you cannot practice the Mega Mind Makeover I’m talking about, and you cannot acquire and practice the skills I’m talking about: These things are useless, when only theoretical! They can only be mastered when practiced, hands on, day in day out, in a workplace environment.

Conclusion: You have to work on fixing and improving yourself first. You have to figure out why you were passed over – truly why, THEN make a plan, THEN get the skills.

And what’s a better place to practice those necessary skills, than your current workplace? Seriously: What have you got to lose? 

You already have lost – now all that can happen is that you gain!

Use this workplace as your playground, free from the inhibitions that usually bind you, and prevent you from pushing the envelope, in regard to your navigation of office politics.

Or in other words: The inhibitions that prevent you from how much of a “bad boy” employee, versus a “good boy” employee, you managed – or even DARE – to actually be.

What I am offering you, what I am suggesting, is a workplace dream come true, which is as promised: how not give a fuck, AND get promoted! But in a good way!

Let me give you some examples – it will make everything crystal clear.

Say you had concluded a successful project, and you want to show off about it a bit – and why not? You’ve done a great job, and you deserve the accolades. Plus, you really think others could benefit from it, because you’ve come to be an expert on the best practices of that issue, which would save them tons of time and hassle.

So, whereas up till now you would be hesitant to brag about your successful project (and I’m not talking about anything excessive, or annoying! I’m just talking about the justified, and legitimate, and even needed PR, that one should be able to do, on behalf of one self)… So, whereas up till now, you would be hesitant to brag about it, because you were scared of what your co-workers will SAY (to your face, and behind your back), or what they will THINK about you (whether they articulated or not), NOW you can put all these worries aside!

You can overcome them now, because you have already lost what you wanted: That promotion and pay raise. So what could possibly happen?

Remember, YOU wanted to quit!
You wanted to fuck the whole company off!

So you are already at Rock Bottom, in terms of how you feel about coming to work, each and every day, and giving it your all.

And also remember, when you were feeling the above, what I said to you was that you can have all that fucking everybody off, as if you quit, but without the actual quitting!

You can always quit later, but until you do… can you see the freedom that you gain, when you realize that:
“Yeah I’m here for now, but maybe I’ll be gone later on… and so, I don’t need to give so much weight to what they’re thinking, or saying about me”.

“Plus, I’ve tried this strategy, and it didn’t work! I was a “good boy” employee… where did it get me??? Nowhere!
The “bad boy” employee got the promotion! The “bad girl” employee got the pay raise – not me!”

“So why even bother with binding myself, and inhibiting myself, and subduing myself, (in the case of in this example) of bragging (tastefully) about something I deserve to brag about?!”

“If I don’t brag on my behalf (tastefully) – who will? Can I trust my co-workers, to sing my praise for me? No!”

“Can I trust my boss, to sing my praise for me? No!”

Indeed, they may or they may not either way it’s out of your control.