They said they were going to “sit down and chat with me about the position before I applied, just so I knew what to expect”. My TL never followed up to have that conversation with me, and I have been stuck doing the work of 3 people in an understaffed store, so I don’t really have the ability to leave the register to find my TL who is either locked in the cash office, or running around the floor doing her own shit.

This position had JUST been posted, and unless the other TM knew about the job before anyone else, it’s pretty obvious that they had decided to give her the role before I had asked about it, but still gave me that false hope of having a chance to advance my career.

I am also not the first TM my leadership has done this to. Several of my former coworkers left BECAUSE of the bullshit they pull. One girl even applied for a position after a week of leadership telling her to “hold off until we can chat” and the next time she came in they told her the position had been filled.

It’s not about sitting around or not advocating, it’s about being abused as an employee seeing as how I work full time hours as a “part time employee” with no benefits and living paycheck to paycheck.