I’ve been in my position, as an assistant manager at a national retail store, for 2.5 years and have been passed for the store manager job for the second time. Both times were after a lengthy period of not having a manager and those were the most successful periods of time the store has had. I was passed over the first time for a person who had no experience and was really bad at it but making $5 an hour above my pay…and when she left without notice i went back to running the store and managed to turn it around…only to find out today that I’d been passed over again. I didn’t even rate a conversation about it, I was just told to put someone on the schedule I was making and had to ask if she was the new manager…when the DM verified it, I just said ‘this is my two week notice’ and hung the phone up. Do I have a plan? Not at all, but I do have a degree and tons of experience so fingers crossed it’ll work out okay