Comment by anal_reactor

The problem is that we're simultaneously talking about healthy and rotten companies. In a healthy company your manager tells you "if you want a promotion, this and this needs to happen" and then you get a promotion and a pay raise. Meanwhile in my company:

- I was given a project "please convince half of the company to drop everything and do work for our team"

- I told my manager "I don't know what you're expecting from me" and he said "I don't care"

- A coworker completed his project, but then was told that the promotion requirements changed

- A coworker was promoted, said that it was a big mistake because pay rose 10% but responsibilities 200%

The thing is, online discourse has little reason to discuss healthy companies. Sharing tips and tricks how to survive in a dysfunctional organization is much more interesting.