Ghosted by restaurant manager

So communication with the manager has been through email and he has always responded fairly quickly.

For context, I dropped off my resume for a server position a week ago, he invited me for an interview days later, then another day later a trial shift, then talked to me for a long time after the shift. We had what felt to be a genuine convo but when it came down to me asking if I got the job he said he still interviewing other ppl so he’ll let me know by wed or thurs. Lo and behold Thursday night and no response, not even a response to my follow up email I sent earlier today.

It’s crazy how these managers just play in ur face like that. Not even having the courtesy of sending a email that takes 10 seconds to type and send for a rejection.

I’m honestly just disappointed that I wasted all my time communicating with him, driving to the restaurant for an interview, working a trial shift, to just be ghosted.

Is this common? I’ve never done trial shifts before.

This was supposed to be a paid trial shift but their check ended up being reversed by my bank. So I contacted the manager in regards to that and he responded to that by forwarding it to his “accounting team”, but not my question about my hiring status, so it essentially is ghosting.

All I can say is smh.