promoded
Promotion to middle management through sleight, deception, pandering to skip level interests, and generally kissing ass. All at the expense of the company, coworkers, and especially on the backs of direct reports.

Most frequently associated with self serving, short sighted, fresh off the boat H1B visas from India with names like Promod, Pramod, Rashid, Hirushuhindubob, etc.
Ramesh just got PROMODED to senior manager; the asshole took credit for all of Ryan's work, then had the gall to give him a bad review!