The Wall Street Journal‘s latest “Cubicle Culture” column, Down Over Moving Up: Some New Bosses Find They Hate Their Jobs, notes that a promotion often isn’t all it’s cracked up to be:
Conditioned all their lives to play their cards right, they aspire ever upward, unaware that the less appealing aspects of a low-level job (navigating expense reports and the sharp shoals of the HR and legal departments) are greatly amplified if they hit the big time. It’s only later that many managers discover that the office with their name on it is private primarily to help them concentrate on budget items, overdue performance reviews and the menus for going-away parties.