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My(28f) regional manager and divisional manager for my division came into my store for a visit today. My regional manager is my boss's boss, and the divisional is my regional manager's boss. From the moment they entered the building my regional manager in particular was trying to get right down to the problems I had with my job. This visit was intended to determine whether or not my assistant would be qualified and ready to take over my position, which I am all for. He definitely deserves it and is a great person overall for the business. He just needs a little tweaking here and there and he would be a great candidate for the job. My regional and I talk a little about the transition at the beginning of the visit and slowly he moves over to the retail aspect of the store before ultimately going through my area of the store. Then, we sit down for the talk. He begins trying to bargain with me and telling me he would offer me more money in order for me to stay if money was the issue, and continuously kept asking what the issue I had and why I was wanting to leave after so long. I had learned years ago that you keep your mouth shut as I've voiced opinions and concerns to higher ups before, my boss found out about said opinions and concerns, and I had repercussions concerning my opinions from my boss. From that point forward I've always been scared to voice any concerns at all in my position as I always feel like I've been seen as a “dumb kid” since that had happened. While talking I explained my reasoning for not wanting to speak on my issues with the position and I told him I get paid I feel somewhat fairly for what I do and that it was more so of personal reasons I wanted to leave the business. My shift lead was sitting in this meeting with us, I had no problem with this at all, and he pretty much laid all the issues I had out for me and told my regional manager if there are any repercussions he would take all of it because what needs to be said needed to be said. So after gaining some confidence from him, I explained the situations I have commented on in my previous post. He said he understood where I was coming from and I swear, I have never in my life had someone look at me and tell me “You have never spoken one word to me about any issues at all and since you have come to me about these issues I know there's a bigger problem than I originally thought. You coming to me about these issues shows I have a huge problem in this store.” I thanked him for understanding, we talked a little bit and departed from the meeting after agreeing I would stay a little bit longer in order for my shift lead to be sent to another state to receive adequate training to take over my position.
As my regional manager is leaving he pulls me aside again and asks me if my boss was the main reason I was leaving again. I explained to him that he is the biggest reason that I would be leaving, and I also explained that I wasn't the GM of the whole property but his employees and my own employees treat me as if I were the GM of the property altogether. This man looks me dead in the face and asks me “So do you want this store then? I will give you this store for you to stay, and don't look me in the face and tell me you can't do it because you know better than anyone that you could run this store.”
I was shocked, very shocked, and questioned what would happen to my boss if I were to take over the store. He told me to not worry about that, he's taking care of the issue, but told me I need to take some time for myself, take a vacation and really think about what decisions I would be making and get back to him when I have decided.
Now I've very stuck. I want to leave and explore other options, but this would be a huge step in pay for myself and my husband. It could potentially be a 15-25k pay raise in salary, and that is just base pay. That's not including profit sharing, bonuses, etc. It would also satisfy me greatly if I were to take my boss's job out from under him in the process. It also gives me hope that maybe, just maybe there is some justice for people in larger companies.
tldr; I put my two weeks in at work because of problems with my boss, my boss's boss offers me my boss's job and him being let go in exchange for me staying. Now I'm confused on leaving the company.