Missed out on promotion due to being on holidays

Not unknown for job offers to be withdrawn due to any number of reasons. I know of people who had Jon offers withdrawn as they needed to start on X date but their notice required a longer notice/gardening leave period.

This case wouldn't be so different in that you cannot start on the date they require, therefore offer is withdrawn.

PodgeW wrote: »

I responded instantly and advised them I was away on annual leave till 4th and would be back on the 5th July.
Instantly to position was withdrawn.

Did you say yes or no to the job offer? Also, was the job time critical?

PodgeW wrote: »

Even though they had asked prior to been offered an interview and me telling them the dates I would be away and they saying they could work around that.. By the way this is all in writing.

Your manager said they would try to work around your vacation, but it seems that was not possible, is the start date of the job (or the training) time sensistive.

Unless you think the timing was designed to remove from the candidate pool, not much you can do.

PodgeW wrote: »

@the_syco The email didn't offer me the job it just told me congratulations I'm through and the training starts on the 2nd July

Check if all who got the training were promoted.

If they were, it was training. If some didn't get promoted, it would mean that the training was part of the interview process, and thus you not being there was automatic fail.

They certainly can't reschedule 34 other people's training to suit you. Doesn't mater what the boss said or what you though. Either cancel the holiday or just accept bad timing that is no one's fault.

is this training a pre-requisite for the job ? can you do the job without it ? if you can't, I would think they're entitled to put your promotion offer on hold.

- I wouldn't rely on verbal communication between current mgr and the screening team before the offer was made.
but would you have kept the same manager after the promotion, cause if you did, was wondering if you mgr would have any input to all these decisions ?

when is the next training available ?

This is the "world should revolve around me query" that pops up every so often in Jobs.... This is not a promotion in the normal sense. It's 34 people being reskilled to a higher skilled role. OP decides they want to take a holiday and thinks that the organisation should work it's schedule around them including the training programme.
As for the poster saying its a mickey mouse operation. Clearly it's not if it's training 34 people at a time. You have no idea what the organisations training schedule, customer demand, availability is so you have no possibility of actually saying whether or not this is the right approach.
OP - 33 other people decided the opportunity was important and made themselves available. You didn't. Your loss. You might have been unlucky that you had prebooked a holiday or you just believe the organisation should hold training for 33 people to suit you. Either way you have no entitlement to the role. You can either learn from that or make yourself into a problem who will be moved on quickly. But these are all your decisions and you should own them.