Quitting because you didn't get promoted.

Wait, Farmer J is a gal?
I got to start paying closer attention.
Anyway, quit.
Or at least give notice and see what happens.
If you can do retail and live in say a medium sized city or college town, then you can get another job in retail. It may not pay as much, at first, but at least you'll be happier.
If you give notice and they make moves to make you happier, it is a win, win.
If they say don't let the doorknob hit you in the ass on the way out the door, then they didn't want you around in the first place and you were passed over in a move to get you pissed and out.
Regardless, best of luck in what happens next.

 

This is retail, not Microsoft. The hiring practices aren't particularly stringent. I don't know why you would be shocked to see somebody incompetent put in a position of responsibility. Maybe it just comes down to the fact that he asked first.

 

Good point. Elevation of cretins to positions of authority is how retail rolls.

 

There's no stopping the cretins from hopping.

 

You want to quit because you didn't get promoted (when you hadn't even expressed interest in the job) or because the jackass got promoted? What if someone other than you and the jackass got promoted?

 

Not our fault if you fellas can't manage cretinous behavior.

 

Cretin hopping is immoral and unnatural.

 

Ya gotta be a cretin
if you wanna keep eatin

 

That's what I don't get, crying about not getting a job you didn't ask for.

 

Keep the job until you find a new one.

Then upper deck this asshole on your last day.

 

I would stay. It's not really the fact that I got passed over, it's the kid that I don't feel I can work under without precious bits of my sanity slipping away (and it's not like I had that much to begin with). I didn't even have a chance to throw my hat into the ring until after I had already found out that this kid was offered the position, though I have expressed that I'd be intrested in this position if it became open in the past.

I had a long talk with my boss today and in a nutshell this is what happened. Nobody was supposed to know about this new management position, but someone told someone and yada yada yada.

Basically she said that if I want to show her I'm a true leader than I'll stick it out untill the position opens up again.

I'm going job hunting all day on Thursday. It's not worth having panic attacks and worrying over. It's only retail. My boss knows how I feel, I told her I was planning on staying at this job for years as opposed to someone who was ready to bounce by the end of the summer.

 

I say suck it up, farmerj. Sanity is way overrated anyway.