At my job. I'm so nervous!
The way it works, when you promote in my company, you move to another location to do so. Its really rare to promote within the same location. So for as long as I stay at my current location, I always remain a "Manager Trainee". But the company frowns deeply upon those who wont promote.
I have already been nagged at for rejecting an offer to promote to the MIDDLE of friggin Austin, a place where I could never hope to drive in. But if I say "I'm a weak driver I can't do that" I'll become a useless item to the company, and the lowest of priority. Not a good place to be so I had to find a graceful way to slip out of that one. I managed to "redeem" myself by throwing my name in the hat for the next promotion that appeared, but I was rejected for that because I got a low secret shopper score at the time (lol). This was a relief because it gave me a reason to lay low and catch up on personal things outside of work, before considering moving again. I was "allowed" to not respond to available opportunities in the company for a while (they appear in emails to us). This gave me the time I needed to adjust and catch up on personal life stuff, but also to ignore locations that I wouldn't want to be in like those in more dangerous areas.
Anyway, I don't hate this concept of moving to promote in the sense that I'm never entirely "stuck" in an area. There are a lot of "dead end" cities I'd end up in otherwise Lol
So we have a location near Dallas (several hours from me, I'm closer to Austin) where the Asst Manager there got demoted because he has been an Asst for 10 years and never wanted to promote to a store manager elsewhere. I didn't know the company went that far still, but they do apparently! So its like we're on a time limit, but its very unusual to be laid off in this job so its not like the man is being pushed out entirely. Just deeply discouraged. Bottom of the company priority line.
Its very shitty, imo.
But this opens an available opportunity in an area that actually... looks really nice. I spent the last two days researching it, especially the infrastructure of the roads and whatnot. Because my driving is weak I gotta be sure I can do it.
I see back roads and 30mph signs and options to always go around highways or alternate routes--I need this :vanora_cry:
Tornado sirens might be a spook for me, but my husband is from Minnesota so he just goes "pffffft"
I pray there wont be animosity if I get this promotion, since the former Asst still works there. I would plan to introduce myself politely and hope to build a relationship where I can learn from the person. My current Asst knows him to be a good dude, so maybe that will be the case.
I dont wanna be a manager, but I mean
Its the "no one wants to be here so its not congested, but the area is very nicely kept up with" city that I might be looking for.
JUST THE APARTMENTS in Texas overall are getting so expensive, I'll be increasing my monthly bills ;; wheezes
