You’re allowed to like women and not want to fuck a woman with a penis, just like you’re allowed to not fuck blonde women if that’s what you prefer. It’s not so deep that you need to get all repressed-homosexuality-weird about it.

One and thirty two hundredths of a megabyte

Or

One megabyte three hundred twenty kilobytes

Do you really know that it wasn’t read? Several hours/the next day is enough time to review something.

It sounds like you were told up front that they want to maintain everyone in their current positions. If there isn’t any possibility for you to move anyway then getting denied isn’t really a reflection of your value or merits as an employee at all so I wouldnt put too much weight into it.

Worry about someone lighting the pole on fire and losing electricity.