The main difference is, I never hired anyone, or saw anyone hired, who was brought in with the knowledge that they didn't have the potential to be management.

I hired people who turned out not to be management material, but on the day I offered them the job, it was with the hope they would be successful within the company.

As most of the people know here, it is frowned upon while working at Enterprise to not get promoted on a regular basis. It is also frowned upon to be the guy that brought someone who was not promotable into the company. They seem to genuinely want promotable people.

I also do agree though that it is often the asskisser that ends up in the power position. Often times though, if someone is skilled at kissing managements ass, they are skilled at kissing account ass too, so it works out a lot of times. What is networking really other than asskissing in the eyes of the people on the outside of the act?

Yes, people do get riled up at ERAC when they think they should get a promotion and it goes to the goldenboy. But they are also aware that golden boy or not he has washed the cars, he has put up with the pissed off customers, and he has dealt with the pains of a pissy manager. And even knowing all that, people begrudge someone a promotion a lot of the time. THAT is why I am wondering how HLE handles promoting people from outside the company.