I started work for a company 3 years ago . I had worked a week and sent home with a laptop due to covid and never gone back to the office since . I’m not a fan of office environments but it’s a necessary evil when you do what I do
After 6 months I had a new manager . She was very nice and we became firm friends . We have socialised out of work and the families are close . As the business has grown she has always said she would need a team leader at some point and the obvious candidates would be myself and one other . She also said if she did have to promote one above the other she would be the point of contact and we would not fall under the new team leader. All this is fair enough. To be honest the other candidate would make a better team leader as she is a social climber , loves the power , wants the title and panders to one member of the team who is always off sick . Over the last few weeks things have changed and under handed things have happened and meetings have been had and conversations in the weekly meetings have started from my boss “ the other candidate and I have been talking and this will be good for the department “ these kind of conversations have creeped in . Someone in the team has gone to my boss and said that I think I would be the best candidate and she is a fool not to have me and I would leave if I didn’t get it “. None of this has never ever been said . My boss balled me out about it . She is now back peddling and wants a meeting at her home so we can talk it over face to face . I have found out today that the manager and the other candidate have been in the office all day . I’m normally invited on these day but not today . I need some advise on how to handle this . Giving up the job is not an option as the pay is wonderful, I work from home and I get a bonus every three years which is nearly the same as my yearly wage .