11ducks: The funny thing is that since day one on my first interview I let him know that my intentions were to have the full time job and not the 32 hours per week job. When I accepted the 32hrs per week position I reiterated that although this was a nice move for me within the company that my ultimate short term goal was getting the 40hrs per week position. Even in the interview yesterday I clearly stated to them that the reason I was in that department (which i enjoy a lot more than my old department) was to be employed full time. I don't think I can be subtle about it anymore lol
Linda_Norway: I'm working towards that point!! FU money would be awesome here but unfortunately I'm still in the getting rid of debt stage :( I'm almost out of this stage though, and then off we go to the building FU money stage.
Liberty Stache:
There is no way I want to shift people on my team around. There is no way I am giving you this job. I am only interviewing you out of courtesy. I am not actually listening.
This is exactly how I took it as well.
Applying to a different role after 2 months within a company is highly against company culture. We just trained you to do a specific job and now you want me to train you again on a different job as well as training someone to back fill you? You are effectively doubling my work. No thanks.
I should have provided a little more clarity. Effectively the position I'm in now and the new position I would have would be the exact same job. The only difference would be the bump in hours from 32per week to 40 per week thus the take home pay increase. Essentially there would be no need to train me a second time, and the person coming in to our department would need to be trained once either way.
Manager M stressed that promoting me up would cause us to have a vacant position for a few months and he felt it was really important to have a full staff. Still leading to me not getting the job/promotion.
Negotiation tactic - Appeal to a Higher Authority (e.g. its out of my control so don't blame me that you aren't getting this job)
I can see what you mean about putting the blame on corporate and taking it off his shoulders. Could be that this is what he did, I will investigate further to see if his statement was in fact accurate.
Yeah I don't think my chances are very high at this point. I will try to play my cards right and work through my supervisor who seems to really like my work. I have a couple ideas up my sleeve.
Thanks for the responses!