Agreed. In the book, “Secrets to Winning at Office Politics”, this type of person is know as a Martyr: Someone whose actions help the company but hurt or do not

Agreed. In the book, “Secrets to Winning at Office Politics”, this type of person is know as a Martyr: Someone whose actions help the company but hurt or do not help themselves. The important point is that helping the company and being promoted are not necessarily correlated and may in fact be orthogonal.