Thanks for your input, divine1966. I thought about the training for a nano-second and opted not to because if this is how disorganized, unprofessional, and disrespectful these franchise owners are, what are the odds they'd be professional enough to follow through on their promises of a job offer.

Edit to add: These 3 are permanent as the woman who interviewed me is an area manager and the other two people (man and woman) co-own this franchise retail location. So, unfortunately, they aren't going anywhere.

What if they pulled the bait-n-switch where they train me to be a dog groomer (that's the training for 2 weeks) and then instead of offering me the assistant store manager role, which they haven't done as promised, offer me a dog groomer role instead. I don't want to be a dog groomer but I wouldn't mind assisting the store manager with the planning, staff scheduling, and marketing and displays etc.

Anyway, my gut's red flags were waving wildly. You don't keep a job candidate waiting in limbo and then breadcrumb them with random emails without any context. I had to ask for the context to find out why they strung me along.

Edit to add: They kept viewing my LinkedIn profile too (there's a feature that shows you who viewed your profile). My guess is, they wanted to hire someone else for the assistant store manager role, and possibly were trying to nail that person down and considered me as a "back up" candidate. Or, they're just 100% disorganized and don't prioritize communication, ethics, or respect of their stakeholders/followers, i.e. job candidates.

There's literally just no excuse in the business world to treat people that way, unless that's a reflection of their personalities (put their own needs first, put others' needs second). I would never work for a company who treated their staff that way and many companies are like that.