Have any Redditors actually SLEPT their way to the top/promotion?

diablo75 · 1 year

About 14 years ago I worked the registers and customer service at Best Buy. One of the chicks behind the service counter tried to sleep herself into a promotion. She ended up getting pregnant.

jackyl_distorted · 1 year

Not my own story, but this takes place in a tech support call center, before they were all moved out of the country, which tells you how old I am. A 19 year-old male new hire who was dumb as a rock one day got taken off the hell that was the phones to become the female manager's "personal assistant". They didn't try to hide that they were sleeping together.

Dude_Im_Godly · 1 year

I've Slept my way out of a job. Seriously, my alarm didn't go off.

sorryforthehangover · 1 year

I work in a bar environment so yea, things are a bit more lose than the regular workplace. My boss has slept with 80% of the female staff, most of the time it is prior to hiring them. No idea how it hasn't come back to bite him.

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warmfruit · 1 year

yeah.. i was sleeping with my bosses daughter for a while.

1) i was the assistant to the ceo 2) she came to my desk after hours one night and jumped on me 3) no 4) yes, i told them all.

unstoppableAdam · 1 year

girl at one of my previous jobs in level one data center operations started bringing hand-prepared lunches for the company VP. She got promoted to DBA. She doesn't know SQL.

ImNotJesus · 1 year

It's the only way to become a mod.

I regret everything.

PoliticalTheater101 · 1 year

I had the misfortune of being screwed over because a female slept with the owner of the company I worked for. I had been there at least 5 years longer, knew the business inside and out, worked directly with the corporate office of the store I was in, had a hand in the company policies and helped make decisions for the company as a whole. She on the other hand worked directly under the owner in the store he kept his office in. After a few years, she became my boss and boss of several store managers, got a company car, was treated to things like a purse or ipod every Christmas from him. While all evidence is circumstantial, it says something when they're always hanging out outside of work, disappear during a convention and then reappearing wearing different clothes, both being at their store 2 hours early together, him constantly putting my store down even though I out performed theirs, them almost being caught by one of his kids who informed me that when he saw her red face and messy hair it would be hard to believe they weren't up to something. Combined with him having a history of not being able to keep his dick in his pants, it's easy to believe they were doing something. The kids of his that I worked with were all under this impression. Some 20 something dipshit had to fondle some 60 something year old balls to get ahead instead of working her way up. Sad.

DerpinaSD · 1 year

Well considering my fiance is my boss, I'm doing pretty good in the company if you catch my drift

Dookiestain_LaFlair · 1 year

I own my own business and I masturbate a lot, does that count?

allicat_88 · 1 year

I was being discussed for a promotion unbeknownst to me. A friend was being considered for a promotion which would make him my supervisor, which was also unbeknownst to me.

We liked each other, we sort of fumbled around together for about 2 weeks, then he got the promotion. At this point, he told me that he wanted toget me a promotion, and that he'd been trying to get me a raise and more power for months. He also then informed me that I'd gotten the money part, at least. He ended his great coversation by saying that I worked too hard to have people say that I fucked my way anywhere, and so now is not the right time for us. Shitty. I fucking hate respecting people that dump me. I also hate being rather good friends with a boss I have feelings for. Shit's weird, man.

Tl;dr: started dating a guy who then got promoted to my boss, then dumped me so no one could say that I fucked my way to where I am.

Edit: I guess I wasn't clear. I am still being considered for a floor manager position, and I got a raise because of his intervention. He'd insisted that I was a valuable employee LONG before we slept together. He ended things when he got the beverage director position. So, even if I make floor manager, he'll still be one of my direct bosses.

meinskeletons · 1 year

Get out the old throwaway...

I am a (female) manager in a not for profit organisation working with people with disability. As such, the perks or monetary/financial bonuses are very few and very far between. The benefits are all I guess circumstantial and might be something like being signed off on training without attending, use of the company vehicle, getting positive performance reviews, picking and choosing which clients one works with or doesn't, priority for promotion/advancement, things like that.

I have a staff member with whom I had an affair. Let's call him Pete. The sexual/romantic component of our relationship is over and has been for more than a year, but our friendship continues both inside and outside of work. It would be fair to say that Pete is "the favourite", that he has advanced within the organisation far higher and quicker than he otherwise would have, that he gets preferential treatment, and that he is "protected" in a way by me. Pete hasn't been performance managed by upper management for almost 4 years while for others this happens 6 monthly. He has full personal use of a company vehicle which ostensibly remains at the office outside business hours. He does not attend staff meetings, training days, networking days unless he chooses to. He does attend conferences etc when they are held in a nice destination, out of town, and we can attend together. He chooses which clients he works with, as a general rule, and chooses which staff members he has working under him.

I do not give him these things because I am afraid he will spill the beans on the affair or because I feel I am at risk given all the "dirt" he might have on me. I do it because I genuinely like him, I have great (and objective) faith in his skill and ability as a staff member, and because I understand his weaknesses and choose to support him to develop them internally, rather than in the punitive style of upper management.

Unfortunately, my manager is a 60-something year old woman, so sleeping my way to the top is probably not an option for me. I wonder if Pete would "take one for the team"?

andybent25 · 1 year

Yes, I did, and he totally stained my blue dress.

Richa2059 · 1 year

Co-worker went from general shelf-stocker to supervisor to assistant manager, she then got moved to a position at regional HQ when the boss was promoted to regional manager. Turns out she was fucking the boss in toilets when the shop was closed/blowing him in the cash office.

According to the other people I worked with, the company was notorious for women using sex to ladder climb, go figure :/

milksteak- · 1 year

Well it's not me, but I work in IT and an attractive girl got a job as a level 2 help desk technician yet doesn't know how to change a PC's resolution. If that wasn't enough, the hiring manager picks her up and drops her off every day from work and he pays for her lunch.

Sometimes I wish men got this treatment from women.

l33tb3rt · 1 year

I slept my way to a pay raise?

1) About a 15% pay increase. 2) It was a 15% pay increase. 3) Fuck no, I was single at the time, and I got a 15% pay increase. 4) No. But it was glaringly obvious something was up. Thankfully the big bosses weren't part of our office.

successful_brown_man · 1 year

I slept with a coworker who is now my boss. I'll let you know how that turns out.

Depravedthrow117 · 1 year

I had a male boss at one of my first jobs. He continuously asked me out for drinks- I'd always decline. One day he says "You know, we might not need you as much next week." (As many hours.)

I snapped and told him that there was no way I was playing games like that and that I would immediately go over his head.

Two weeks later I got transferred to another store miles away from my home as they hired new people in my old store.

Fuck you Eddie Bauer. Shitty company, shitty clothes.

A-punk · 1 year

I was failing badly in my English class and needed something ridiculous like a 98 on my final exam to get a pass for the year. My teacher wasn't the worst looking thing in the world, but she was getting on in years and fairly lonely at the time; coupled with the fact I really couldn't afford to drop this class, it was going to set me back way to long and I wanted to get out of my situation as quickly as possible and this was what I needed to graduate and move on to bigger and better things.

So I went into her office for 'advice'. We got to talking and one thing led to another and we ended up fucking right there on her desk a few times. I ended up passing (surprisingly) and the funny thing is a few years later we would hook up every now and then (it was a small town with not much to do, what can I say?)

So yeah, home schooling sucked, but it got me to where I am today so I can't really regret anything that I did.

violetfyre · 1 year

Yes I did. I was truly attracted to him though, as were most of the girls that worked there. I couldn't get a better pay rate because it was a set 9 month situation. I did get to work where I want to, but only after a few people became injured. I also lived the closest, which you had to be there earlier than everyone else. I don't really feel like there were benefits really garnered. We dated, but there was a known expiration date on anything we started. I don't think anyone at work really realized it until the end when he got a little more brazen about showing affection towards me. I probably got a little to involved at then end when I caught him out with another girl during my last week there. No crazy happened, just a couple texts. I was mad he was replacing me already? Go figure. We remain friends today, but live in different states.

Finnbot · 1 year

This isn't about me, it's about my Mother.

When I was around 12 she got a job at a new place. Can't remember off the top of my head exactly what she was doing but after 2 or 3 weeks she suddenly got a promotion. Next thing it was trips down to London, bringing back shit from Harrods, VIP Formula 1 tickets at Silverstone(think it was the time Hill won). All of which she attended without my Dad, which is just fucking suspicious as fuck considering he is a huge F1 nut. But we were all like 'seems legit.

Next comes frequent 2 week holidays to Germany, on 'business trips'. Bringing back fucktons of pics of her cruising down a river on huge ass boats. Again, all seemed well.

Then, all of a sudden, my Mum and Dad had split up and we were moving to fucking spain. Lolwat. Turns out that she had been fucking the boss since day one. With each consecutive fuck, she must have been promoted. Until she was quite high up (again I am sketchy on the exact details since it was when I was just a little naive plonker back then). By the end of their affair, once she had split with my Dad, the guy sold his stake in the company for millions and then bought a huge ass boat and we sailed happily ever after to Benalmadena in spain.

Only for things to come crashing back down to reality with some nice wife beating thrown in for good measure. And we had to come crawling back to scotland. Good fucking times.

tl;dr mom was a slut, became a ceo's bitch and uprooted us all to spain. only to return in shame 2 years later.

BaconCat · 1 year

ITT: Jokes about sleeping in and napping.

thestraylightpun · 1 year

I read this question wrong:

I literally slept my way to a promotion before. All I did at work was sleep, but because my paperwork documenting all of the actions I supposedly took while asleep was perfect, my bosses loved me. I worked overnight in a locked room that only I controlled access to, so when anyone dropped by unanounced, I'd just tell them to standby while I took a deep drink of water and stretched a bit.

Then, my supervisor, who would also rack out about 50% of her shift, just bullshitted my performance report relating all of the fictional yet awesome shit that I'd supposedly accomplished, and I got an early promotion to E4 (BTZ).

(It was military: no one cares about actually doing shit, brass just cares about proper documentation saying that you did)

(Post script: I have no idea how my supervisor ever managed to become an NCO. One time she asked me where the roman numeral keys were on a keyboard. Seriously.)

DublinItUp · 1 year

NSFW? I think not.

tempest63 · 1 year

I offered that exact promotion to my employee, she didn't go for it...

iShavedMyFaceForThis · 1 year

...Fixin' to start. I'll keep you posted.

hamlet9000 · 1 year

I have, at my best, merely managed to nap my way to the middle.

moonbeamwhim · 1 year

I own my own business. The only other person involved is my business partner, who happens to be my mom. ಠ_ಠ

iamBillCosby · 1 year

How do you think Bill Cosby got so famous?

thelawandthelady · 1 year

How the hell do you think Bobby Petrino's girlfriend got a job?

fartuckyfartbandit · 1 year

I probably shouldn't admit this, but yes, I have slept my way to a promotion. I had sex with a 46 year old woman from Arkansas for a buy 1 get 1 free DQ Blizzard coupon promotion.

redmachined · 1 year

When I worked at a nightclub, one of the shot girls (basically scantily-clad young women who carry around plastic test tubes full of shitty mixed drinks) got elevated to bartender, then assistant manager, then floor manager, all int he span of four months. Stopped giving a fuck about that job at that point; figured fucking the owner in his Jaguar was the only way to get promoted around there, and I'm not THAT heteroflexible.

What else... two other shot girls got their implants paid for, a waitress got fired after starting to date a regular customer, all kinds of skeevy shit going on there.

zace333 · 1 year

I slept my way into a job. A few days after we did it he informed me there was an opening at his work and asked if I was interested. Then he used his connections to get me hired. After that he got promoted to supervisor, it was a little awkward because before the promotion he ended things with me.

astrograph · 1 year

i know a girl currently attending an university that slept with her TA. she ended up getting 100's on her h.w. portion of her engineering course.

i don't really speak to her much anymore.

Herborist · 1 year

How do you think I got all of my comment karma? ;)

PrettyLynny · 1 year

I used to work at a not for profit organization. After my boss offered me a position as his coordinator along with advances like,"we could go get drinks together," I quickly declined to be his bitch.

He was pissed so he offered the position to another girl, we'll call her Ali and him Corbin.

Ali accepted and became the new coordinator. She is near retarded and never ever did anything correctly but Corbin never saw any fault in her. Rumors spread like wildfire at my work normally but especially after Ali's promotion. There were rumors of her sleeping with Corbin and after his past work experience. (He made out with one of his subordinates at his previous job, this was confirmed by a manager who was from the other branch. Why wasn't he fired you ask? Because he claims she made the advances and vice versa and there was no real proof it even happened, although it was very believable. He then decided he wanted to transfer branches to "be closer to his home.") It was very plausible that Corbin and Ali had a fling.

After working for the asshole for two years I could no longer stand the favoritism, or lack there of on my part, and after an attempt to put in my two week notice Corbin somehow manipulated me out of quitting while making me cry for an hour in his office and then he threatened to fire me because he said "be honest," and I told Corbin I felt, and his body language suggested, he didn't care about me or what I had to say.

On my way out that day I talked to his boss, "Jerald," and told him what happened. Jerald used to be my boss then was promoted and they brought in Corbin. Jerald told me how much he hates Corbin and wants to get him fired and told me what a creep he is. He even told me how Corbin and him went drinking and Corbin admitted to messing around with Ali. He also told me how another one of my coworkers was with her mom walking their dogs when they saw Corbin and Ali making out in a car in the parking lot. Also, Corbin regularly cheats on his wife when he goes to work out of town at the same place yearly with the same lady.

I finally quit and am out of that hell hole and Ali is no longer the coordinator.

TLDR: I rejected my boss' advances, he promoted another girl. Rumors were confirmed of his affair with her after I quit.

For those who will say "this shit's fake, or else he would have been fired long ago." This shit is not fake, at non profit orgs. it's easier to keep manipulative dbags who will work for next to nothing when nobody wants his job and nobody wants to take on the responsibility along with their own full time positions because they are already absorbing the work of other full timers who were let go because of the economy.

tellevee · 1 year

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Swaaat · 1 year

If you asked my dad, he has stories of women and men sleeping around back in his old job 10 years ago...

Simply put, he was some sort of banker investor type broker (whatever the term is) on Wall Street who didn't have to interact socially with others luckily. He just sat behind an office desk and did his work. Others he knew on the other hand, were bankers who had to interact with others to make deals (go on business trips often, meetings, golf games, parties, strip clubs, fancy expensive dinners) etc.

You can see where this is going. He told me that a LOT of women/men screwed their way to the top mainly by sleeping with hookers, strippers, for the weekend on business trips and with other coworkers. This happened when one banker wants to make a deal with another huge company's executives so they have these meetings and golf games and during these times, hookers and strippers are hired and therefore they're expected to "do things" with them.

They wanted to close the deal and get more money and get promoted. So they did. And that's how people got promoted and closed off major company deals on Wall Street.

Vanroosh · 1 year

Not so much a slept their way to a promotion but a similar type of story I find hilarious. I used to work in bar with this guy who used to do the most stupidly funny stuff such as stripping down to his underwear and serving people all night like that. He was constantly getting in trouble and quite often written up for it. Anyway one day we get a new female general manager and we all go out for drinks to get to know her (organised by the company). You can pretty much guess what happens. Ever since that night the guy was pretty much unfireable because when ever he used to act up and the manager told him to get back to work he would simply say "yeah? well I've cum on your face" and go back to whatever stupidly funny thing he was doing. I know it's not about promotion but he did manage to keep his job. She got sacked shortly afterwards because standards slipped pretty quickly.

PipingHotSoup · 1 year

Man I feel retarded. I definitely thought you meant slept as in napped and was looking for epic stories about dozing off.

IHv2RtrnSumVdeotapes · 1 year

Someone at my job has done this. A female who started sleeping with people at my work as soon as she started working here. She went on to sleep with several supervisors and when promotion time came around, she was promoted.

She passed the test you have to take to get promoted, but was nowhere near the top of the list for the promotion, she got it because she had fucked/was fucking some of the people who do the promoting.

She went on to fuck the second highest in command at my job, actually blowing/fucking him in his office on several occasions(she told an ex-girlfriend of hers who shes fucked over later all the details about the incident, even describing his penis in detail to this person).

This woman will continue to get promoted because of this. Shes at a point where shes pretty untouchable at this point, but i believe all the problems shes created will eventually catch up with her and the supervisors shes fucked.

3nexx · 1 year

So... AMA request: mattress tester?

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