demotion

I'm not so sure if the demotion is valid for this story.

The real problem to solve is dynamic promotion/demotion of masters This whole thread is about how postgres hasn't even streamlined the manual promotion/demotion of one master in a simple master/slave pairing.

A federal judgeship (to a district or non-appellate court) would actually be a demotion in pay, responsibilities, and prestige.

Maybe that's a good choice and something she wants, but it looks a bit like a demotion.

It sounds like the environment may be unfixable, given your references to turnover and de facto demotion to tech support.

It can often feel like a demotion when you are passed over and senior positions are filled from the outside.

A site penalty or demotion of the site on adwords, can lead to business failures.

If you defend such behavior for taking over job/demotion I seriously think there lies greater problem in tech community.

The real problem to solve is dynamic promotion/demotion of masters and slave.

Removing the people management leadership position then can feel like a demotion.

PM would be a demotion at the companies I've worked at -- or at least a significant decrease in pay.

Said repercussion usually being firing, demotion or career derailing.

Do companies take the legal position that a demotion is an "interruption"?

It is well-known that the New Horizons PI, Alan Stern, had a strong distaste for the "demotion" of Pluto.

In truth, moving one's title to the management track is a demotion in a way, because it's so much harder to make "X-equivalent engineer" than X on the management track.

Plutos "demotion" from being a fully-fledged planet makes me wonder if it would have been politically feasible to start the New Horizons project if the redefinition had happened a few years earlier.