[patmcguire]

"Ambitious employees tend to spend months having lunch and coffee with their boss’s peers to ensure a positive outcome once the topic of their proposed promotion is raised in an OLR."

Sounds like all those Microsoft stories that came out a few months ago.

[Shivetya]

its a trend others and I have seen elsewhere. Far too much a popularity contest, trying to ensure during your daily and weekly routine you don't piss off someone who might be sitting on the review panel.

It has taken getting good work done and placed it second to making sure to not tread on any toes, even if that means things that should be done don't get done.