For three years, I worked my way up in my company. I stayed late, covered shifts, fixed other people’s mistakes, and kept my manager happy. When my boss told me a promotion was “basically mine,” I believed him. Then everything flipped. I trained Jake for 90 days without extra pay knowing I had a promotion lined up. He was younger, confident, quick to speak in meetings. I showed him the systems, introduced him to clients, and walked him through processes that took me years to learn.
