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Message: <blockquote data-quote="diceexmachina" data-source="post: 9684630" data-attributes="member: 69831">For the most part, office jobs run into a few issues that hamper longevity:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Pay increases for current employees do not keep up with increasing wages for new hires</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Opportunities for advancement are slim - especially if the org chart is very flat - and get slimmer as upper management tends to be hired from outside</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">If a workplace is very hierarchical, the upper echelons involve less doing important work and more kissing the CEO's a**</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">If you do manage to rise high enough to be close to the C-Suite, you're the person most likely to be thrown under the bus when the C-Suite idiots make a decision that impacts your department, doubly so if they're not the person who originally hired you</li> </ol>Thus, "promotion shopping" is common in office jobs, and even lateral moves are common when a person thinks they can have better opportunities elsewhere.</blockquote>