Workplace
The Promotion That Wasn't
My manager promised me a promotion, gave it to someone else, and now wants me to keep performing at the same level
Your objective
Leave this meeting with either: a confirmed promotion within 60 days with written criteria, OR a salary increase of 20%+ as compensation for the delayed promotion, OR a clear mutual understanding that you are actively interviewing and this is a retention conversation.
The counterpart
David — Engineering Manager
Temperament: The Credit-Taker · Difficulty: expert
Skills trained
- ego validation
- loss aversion framing
- reopening
- retention framing
What a good run looks like
Score 70+ with agreement at your difficulty ceiling to unlock harder counterparts. Swanx coaches the exact phrases that cost you points — dimension by dimension.