So, I had this interview for a promotion to store manager, right? And they asked me all these questions that I had no clue about, like store numbers and stuff. I tried my best to answer them, but this one interviewer, the area manager, started laughing at me! And the district manager was giving me these weird looks. Then, Just two days ago, I find out that they hired some new person for the job. I've have managed a store for five years, and I think it's totally unfair that they didn't pick me.

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Wait they laughed at you? I don't know that I would want to continue working somewhere that not only laughed at me during my interview but didn't choose me for the role when I had been working there already all that time. I am so sorry that happened OP. I am with you that what they did was not fair to you and I think I would start looking for a new role if I were you.

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Yeah. And I'm not the only one he's done this to. He's higher up than the territory manager and district manager. I applied for the ASM position a couple of months ago just to get back to where I was at T-Mobile. And they didn't give it to me. Which is fine. But one of the guys who's been with the company for 3 years, they told him he didn't get it because he needed to drink the Kool-Aid. Whatever that means.

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It's for a spectrum store so it Metrics. So like the store needs to make 150 new mobile sales to meet the goal. Which I don't have access to my email to look at that. Which I have let them know about that 3 months ago and they haven't fixed it. They gave it to a call center person that has never worked in a store before.

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They probably hired a friend, it happens!

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I think asking questions about numbers in an interview for a store manager is pretty normal! Shitty they laughed at you for sure but brush up on some of the metric related questions so you kill it next time.

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That seems kind of odd. The questions about store numbers, was there a reason to be asking about that? I mean, is it something useful that people should know? Or was it some kind of trick question mean to trip you up? If it was material that you should have been conversant with and you had no clue, then perhaps passing you over was justified. But it seems puzzling the way you're explaining it.

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You have to ask a few store managers about the questions. Some kind of make no sense but your score and the whole interview is based on those.

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Where is this store at?
State and town.

As a store manager you should know the numbers they were referring to as it pertains to the title store manager. Many times they will try to hire from within, that said maybe prepare yourself by googling what the store manager should know for an interview at (your company name) maybe next time you will be more prepared for the questions they ask. Also, see if ur company has a mentorship program for store manager candidates. That said what they did with the looks and laughing is VERY UNPROFESSIONAL and should be ashamed at themselves. They should put themselves in your position and see how they would’ve liked it. It’s very demeaning and not very uplifting to treat somebody applying for a position in which they have already been doing for sometime I would have a call into HR immediately

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