[Misc] How much sucking up has to be done in a corporate company to get promoted?

[Mayonaise]

If it is anything like the corporate I work in it would have been decided long before the interview stage and this was all a HR exercise

From the bosses body language, I would agree with this. Just going through the motions so he could tick the box.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Sounds like the job was already sorted. However it may have been worth challenging the boss on the Q & A along the lines of “I sense from your demeanour/ body language that there is something I still havent convinced you about”. That would have been a good way of flushing him out as it is clear, if it wasnt a stitch up, that he hadnt fully bought into you.

Good luck for the future

Thanks, I would have loved to flush him out, but it may have been high risk! After the event i wished i had.

The thing I haven't mentioned yet the guy is a referee and he always wanted the last decision, not the first time I have had a red card from a ref, but I was 20 years younger and had a bit of handbags with the opposition!

I suppose the motto is refs are untouchable, praise Sir Ashley Barnes.