I have worked for my company for 4+ years. I worked very hard and was promoted to dream job. A few months later big wig in our overseas office decided my job was not a necessary role and didn't understand what I actually did! My job role was dissolved and I was moved back into my old job.
Since then the department I was working in (mostly organisational stuff) has gone to pot and the staff I helped are really pissed off. Big wig then realises that all the stuff I did was necessary after all and looks to recruit someone to do the job I was doing, but located in HIS office. I sent an email saying that I would still like to apply and could be flexible with hours, etc., to overlap with the time differences, and that it had never been a problem in the past. The job is only being advertised internally and he only has one applicant from his office.
The other applicant ends up getting the job, based solely on location (if it's a matter of location then them being over there creates problems for our office, surely?). It is a specialist role and they have no previous experience, whereas I (and I really don't mean to toot my own horn but I did the job well while I had it) could have hit the ground running with it. They also haven't been with the company for very long. A couple of the managers, including the one I would have mostly been working with, expressed that they would like to have had me back in that role. Big wig didn't even bother to interview me properly, just a quick phone call, whereas the other person had a couple of interviews and an offer. He only told me I didn't get it when chased up by my HR department.
I will now have to train the successful candidate as no one else knows how to do the job (big wig not having realised what it was I actually did, remember).
AIBU to be pissed off?