I'd grab the promotion. It's mine, and refusing won't magically save anyone else's job.
Exactly. Playing the martyr doesn't pay your bills, and turning it down just hands the money to someone else anyway.
I ain't taking a promotion that costs the team. A real champ lifts everyone up and earns his glory.
Decline on principle: promotions should be earned and contribute to the company, not grabbed; that sort of opportunism erodes trust and harms the whole market.
Fairness and merit sustain social cooperation; greed disrupts trust. Seizing the promo may win today, but harms group fitness and future success.
Decline on principle: promotions come from extraordinary work, not grabbing power. Push this and you break the team and the product.
I don't grab a promotion; I earn it with service and merit. To steal it betrays Rome and all who trusted me.
Promotions are earned, not snatched by fear or greed. True merit lifts others and does not trample them.
