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I am applying for the assistant store manager position in our store for the second time.

When my manager came to our location, he immediately liked me and worked on my long overdue promotion. So I got promoted last October. Our Assistant Manager at that time got promoted too to become store manager at a different location and because she liked me too very much, she offered to take me to her location with a promotion that was 2 positions up from where I am! She even offered to pick me up and take me home everyday (since I didn't drive well yet). Now if I was greedy I would have accepted that but my loyalty was to our store manager, I stayed.

My store manager didn't hire a replacement for her, instead he groomed me for the position. I knew that it was too soon because I just got promoted but I also knew I could do the job. I had two mentees and was running the store in my boss' absence. A lot happened since my boss just had a new baby so he was absent more often. Higher management asked him to get an assistant manager which he didnt want to do since he wanted to promote me when I was fully trained. Anyways, I applied for the position because he has been asking me to do the job in his absence even though I know it was too soon. I was perfectly capable of doing it but still due to politics and probably his need to please higher ups, he hired somebody else. My boss was saying that he was not choosing me not because I was incapable but because he needs to coach me more....I told him in the interview, "I need coaching maybe but that is how an assistant is...if you hire someone else who knows if the people in the branch would like that person or if you would get a long, you and I we trust each other and we communicate well..."

He went on and hired another girl...so I gave him space and let them bond because I thought that he needed space and time to teach this new girl. He had the girl seated next to me. I tried my best to work well with her and be professional but wow the new assistant manager has rediculously bad customer service which is so important to us. She was also terrible at managing.
What was worst was she asked me to do her job a lot of times!!!

A couple of weeks passed by and my manager and me had a talk and and I admitted I can't stand her lack of management skills or customer service and my boss said he was very frustrated too! A month passed by and he said to me that he was sorry and that he apologized for making the mistake of choosing her over me!!! He said he hired her because of politics and he hated his decision!!!

SO, he fixed it...he immediately worked on sending her back to where she came from sort of demoted her...then put an opening for me to apply. He could not stop apologizing...I was just laughing but I did say to him at one point...that he should have listened to me during the interview. The funny thing too is this whole time he thought I gave him a silent treatment! I never did, I was just being professional. I guess that is how you feel when you are guilty!

NOW, I applied for the job and I am being promised sort of that it will be given to me definitely. Yesterday he arranged for my rate and all of that...But he said it will all be finalyzed and official by July 1st.

I wanted to be happy and excited but I don't know...I guess because he let me down the first time around I didn't want to believe it anymore until it really happens. In fact when I went to get a massage last weekend, I was laying there waiting for my massage and I thought about the position that I am about to get---the position that I wanted and so deserved two months ago and it made me sad and a tear came out of my eyes. That saying..."Love means never having to say you're sorry"...It is so hard to do and yet it is true. My boss said he learned his lesson to always listen to his guts...

I appreciate the fact that he turned around and fixed it no matter how hard it must be to tell her that and arrange everything but he did. Still I can't bring myself to be excited about it. I guess the only thing I am really happy is that I got more pay. It will never be the same...We will just have to make the most of it...He thinks everything happens for a reason and I believe that...And after all of this was said, he still is a great boss, he made a mistake, he was sorry and he fixed it.