A job has come up at work. I have done this role before on and off over the years and various roles in that team and am very experienced. The team want me to apply. The downsides are there is no area for personal growth as I have exhausted all tasks of the role. I would be on the same pay as now.
The line manager is new to this line of work so has 5 months experience and I have 9 years experience. This line manager has been asking me for help on how to do things because I have more knowledge and experience and they won't ask their manager through fear of looking incompetent. I just don't get how I can learn and progress if I know more than the line manager.
The workload is unreasonable. I would be expected to do tasks more than is possible in the working week. Lots of chasing people, staff and customers which I find really frustrating because other people did not get the correct information from the customer the first time round. I would find it boring as I have done the tasks so much over the years.
Then I would be expected to do the line manager's job when they are on holiday so my work gets delayed by a week but I get no help or support to catch up. I have done this before for 18 months with constant catching up and don't want to do this again.
I don't see any benefits to this job. If they ask why I have not applied for the job what do I say?