I'm posting here for traffic and would really appreciate other's thoughts on this. A good internal job opportunity has come up in the organisation I work for. It would be a promotion for me, and I've had a chat with one of the individuals who will likely be on the interview panel to sound it out - she is lovely, easy to speak to and said she would welcome my application.
The issue is this: the successful candidate is likely to be directly managed by someone I know of old, who is very caustic and uncommunicative - and has a freezing cold personality. She has form for "putting people in their place," and is a formidable presence. She is also well known for being quite rude, snappy and abrupt. If I were to get this job, I would be line-managed by her. I've sat in meetings with this person and never, not once, seen her smile. I've never directly worked with her but even my current senior manager told me that she snapped at her when she first started for getting her job title wrong!
I'm really torn as to whether to apply. Would you apply for a job knowing you'd have a tough time of it under your new manager?