I just thought I'd update!
I didn't get the job.
Because I didn't have an interview for it.
As I put above, I applied and was given an interview date on my day off.
I accepted it.
Manager then contacted me to say all interviews were cancelled until the new year.
Annoying but okay.
So last Tuesday I am at work and have a msg from another manager saying 'Millicent, are you not coming to your interview?'
I responded that I didn't know what she meant, I'd not been informed of any interview?
Turns out they'd emailed me about the interview date on my personal email but 1)I no longer use the email address that's on my CV and 2) It had gone into SPAM.
Manager responded again (before I knew the above) that she had just noted that recruitment hadn't actually notified me, and they hadn't put it in my calendar either.
She then later told me they'd emailed my personal one and she had told them this was wrong as they didn't know if I still used that email address. I don't-and even if I did, it isn't where I'd expect them to contact me for an internal position.
So they gave me another date. It was the date of an important appointment that I really could not cancel. I apologised and told them I could not make that date.
They said they'd get back to me with a new date and never did.
Two of my colleagues had already been interviewed and now both have the job.
Such is life.
I have talked myself out of wanting the position at all now, given the shambles!