Yes, that's fine, the senior guy can have the junior guys trip. But then someone junior to me gets what I wanted. Seniority truly honored?

I typed a long response of what I think should happen in this situation, and once I reread it I realized there was some kind of seniority issues in everything I typed at every level. However I still view this current situation as the worst violation of seniority in this scenarios, ie someone being completely skipped over.

Point is, I think this situation, any way you spin it (besides the response of senior guy gets whatever he wants, all people below him be d*****d) supports the point of true seniority being ignored for many things here.