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Input: I’ve been working at this company for 2 years. I’m at an entry level position, it pays more than minimum wage but you don’t need a college degree to work there. The department I’m in only has like 10 people in it.

A few months ago, we got a new person hired in to our department. I helped train him when he first started. And yesterday we got news that he’s being promoted.

A few of us were kinda baffled by it. He had no prior experience in this kind of work. 

Management has always made it clear to me that they think I’m doing a great job, and that they can always count on me, and I always get really good marks in my employee reviews, etc etc.

Yesterday a few of us were talking about why this new person would’ve gotten promoted, instead of someone like me, who’s been there for much longer and who is a great employee. 

One person speculated that it could be because this new employee is the only one (in our entry level department) who has a bachelors degree (albeit for something not related to what our company does) and so they felt he may be somewhat “over qualified” for the position he was hired in for, and that maybe they didn’t want him to get “bored” with what he was doing and look for another job instead. 

After thinking about it, that possible explanation seemed to make a little bit of sense to me and made me feel a little better.

Also important to note: this new person has also expressed interest in working more hours and doing more things for the company, so this could go along with the “we don’t want him to get too bored” explanation. But this better not be the only reason though, because I have also expressed interest in working in higher positions in the past.

Then today, I was talking to my other coworker, who was saying she felt kinda pissed for me that this new person got promoted before me. I explained to her that I did feel kinda bummed about it, but that I would kinda understand if it was because he had a college degree, and they felt he was overqualified. But then she said “it shouldn’t matter that he has a college degree, it’s not related to what our company does at all and he has no prior experience; and if being ‘overqualified’ was a problem, he shouldn’t have taken the job in the first place.” Then she said I should ask management why he was promoted and I wasn’t.

But I don’t know how to ask without sounding entitled.

**TL;DR**: I’ve been working at this company for 2 years and I’m a great employee. New person gets hired in a few months ago with no prior experience and gets promoted. One of my coworkers thinks it’s justified because he has a bachelors degree and I don’t and management might think he’s “overqualified” to work in this position and management might not want him to get bored and find another job. My other coworker feels pissed for me, thinks it’s unjustified that he got promoted over me, and that him having a bachelors degree shouldn’t matter because it’s not related to what our company does, and he has no prior experience doing what we do, and him being “overqualified” is his problem because he took the job in the first place.

asking my boss why my coworker was promoted instead of me