HR Advice

[dfrecore]

I've worked at large 20,000+employee international companies, all the way down to companies with 20 employees. They ALL have policies & procedures, and they are not always well thought out. It may take some time and a process to untangle things. A VP in some companies may not have as much direct access to the president in the company than you think, depending on the size of the company, and the way they view the org chart (being more flat or much more hierarchical).

And, yes, I know there is still discrimination and racism and all of the other ism's in the world. It MAY be that. It may NOT be that. Either way, it NEVER behooves someone to go straight to playing the discrimination card without knowing for certain that's what's going on, and even then, you need to be careful. You are guaranteed to not go any further in your company with that kind of attitude, and probably get fired/demoted/whatever, blackballed in the industry, etc. That's just not a good way to play the game.

There is no sense ratcheting things up to a 12 when a 2 might do. If there's a 6 month policy on promotions, and your boss isn't actively working on getting you into that VP role by then, then I would probably kick it up to a 4. But I'm going to save the 12 for later in the process, and give things time to work themselves through.