Exactly the same...
...Just as they want automatic annual pay increases without showing any value to their company, they want automatic promotions without showing any increase in capability.
Around here (Chicago area), we call that "social promotion". Works in business too.
(Hey, maybe we really are training them for the "real world"...)
jb4
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