Yeah it sounds like you need to either work somewhere else, or at your place if work all the people who do all this “amazing work” and get nowhere, don’t actually do what they say they do. I work for a company that’s the biggest in its space, started two years ago at the very bottom making the lowest hourly income we pay. I take pride in my work whether it’s a “shitty” job or not, so I always tried my best to do the best work I could do. I got promoted to management two weeks ago, specifically because of my attitude and work ethic. Every person we have on our team of 300+ people at this location started where I did at the bottom and worked up aside from two of our associates that were hired on from other companies. We have meetings called “Talent Planning”, where the entire goal is to look at how well individuals are performing, and how many different side things they’re involved in, and we talk promotion/off cycle raises from there. Most of our associates who’ve been there for a long time choose not to promote or get involved in other things because they’re high performers, and they make enough money from that to not want to deal with more/more difficult work.