Just as important, she's not being offered the supervisory experience that she'll need for future assignments. To get around the pigeonhole problem, develop your skills as a negotiator. If it works, the company benefits, and so do you. And if the boss won't even let you try, your job is even more out of gas than you thought. Your reputation is working against you.
Reputation is a taboo subject that most people, and most companies, shy away from.
But your reputation can kill you, or it can vault you into new levels of opportunity - often without your even knowing why. How well you manage your reputation can determine how much gas remains in your tank. Then it gets spread throughout an organization by word of mouth. Once it gets established within a company, your reputation can be hard to change - even if it's based on a misperception or a miscommunication. Lassiter tells the story of a woman consultant who got stuck with a reputation for being greedy.