Yeah bro, a lot of businesses out there are run like popularity contests. Not the top performing ones mind you. One of my teachers was a banker and stock trader for credit Suisse. Acne scarred face. But she is a hell of a worker.

A lot of chads and chadlites do go into banking and finance, but the ones who make it, are the workers, and smart ones. The ones who put in 12 hours a day. But most non high functioning businesses, it's all a social game. So long as you aren't completely incompetent, the popular people get hired and promoted first. They just have a better "vibe" about them.

I was in fact denied a promotion once because I was described as "uncooperative" Such bullshit. I help out everybody. It's just that I don't let the chads push me around, and I know what my role entails, and their role and won't let them offload their workload on me. But that breaks their realm of expectations, therefore upsets them, therefore they rationalise to justify their outrage.