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TIFU by not quitting my job

So as the title implies I screwed up and allowed my self to get played. This actually happened about a month ago, and just yesterday blew up in my face. So here what happened I've been working at my current job for 11yrs going on 12 and for 8 of those years I've doing what most of America's been doing looking for a new job. For all the typical reasons one would do that i.e. management was trash, pay sucked , and that one ah co-workers just makes your day just that much worse you know. Any way it took about 8yrs to get a pretty good job offer and was nice too. Came with a $3.55 rise with a payed overtime which would pushed it up by like another $6. The commute was perfect, it was about 10min walk from my apartment a 2min drive. Despite starting earlier the working hours overall were better. The only downside I saw was that this company only hires temps before they bring you on permanent full time. So I bet your wondering why I choose to stay. Well the answer to that was my current company when I put my notice in made me a seemingly better which in hindsight was clearly to good to be true. They promised many things for starters they matched the pay increase kinda it was .55 cents short, but it was supposed to only be temporary anyway so it didn't really matter. They promised me a promotion that came with an even larger rise and I would also be moving to a salaried position VS hourly one have now/was leaving for. The commute to the new position would have been longer 35mins i beleave but the rise would have made up for it, and all of this would have with in a month they promised. So I turned that job down because what was offered seem better. So what actually happened, well the $3 rise is thing only thing I'm going to get/already got. The promotion that was to get yeah thats not gonna happen. They explained it as they were expecting someone to retire about that time but they didn't. Translation the job it self was never there in the first place. Probably should added this at the top but the location were I work is shutting down do to landlord shenanigans so everyone is being relocated elsewhere in the company this is not a promotion it's a lateral move, meaning there is no increase in pay. The position I'm being moved in too was the same position I would have moved in too before I was going to quit. Only difference now then before is $3 rise. The commute to the new spot wasn't financially worth it before and it's not worth it now. The only thing making the longer commute worth it before was the larger raise.

TL;DR I tried to quit for a better job got enticed by a fake offer and passed on a better job.

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