The main point is not about winning or losing a promotion, but about a person who kept missing chances to give to others at work. The missed promotion was Divine Spirit's way of reminding him of the Law of Cause and Effect. The man had lost his drive. It finally came down to his manager having to explain to him the reason a more qualified person got the promotion. Long ago, this worker had stopped giving his best.
Life is about spiritual growth.
God speaks through the voice of conscience, holy scriptures, feelings, and even the positive urgings of other people. Yet there are other ways. God's Voice also reaches us through human love, intuition, dreams, the Spiritual Exercises of ECK, or a direct experience with the Light and Sound of God. The above story about the disgruntled worker is an example of the Divine Word speaking throughthe manager. A key purpose for life here is to have as many opportunities as possible to learn the give and take of divine love.