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Let me introduce you to be Peter principal: As long as you do your job well, you get promoted. On the flip side this means that eventually you arrive at a job you don't do well and that's where you stick because you can't return to your old position but neither will you get fired because you work for the company too long. That's why there are many people in middle management who did their job well until they had to manage others which isn't part of their skill set.
I've been in exactly the situation that the previous commenter was likely referring to. Every attempt to get promoted was either just danged further and further or outright sabotaged when I tried to move to other departments. The large, and completely self-inflicted, fallout they had from me eventually leaving for a different company continues to warm my ice cold heart to this very day.