Soldato
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A colleague of mine has just been told he was unsuccessful for a recent opening he'd applied for and that the successful candidate was the son of the sector senior manager.
Now here is some basic facts, my colleague is in his late 30s, has a degree, has worked there for 15 years, has a lot of knowledge of our policies, knows the application system we use inside out, has been working in the department offering the job for a couple of months and he could do the job standing on his head.
The son of the sector boss (who is the boss of the two people who conducted the interviews) is 22, just left Uni with an unrelated degree and has barely been temping at our place for 6 months doing a fairly menial job that is completely unconnected to the role he's just got.
This isn't a case of sour grapes and not a single person at my place thinks this was anything other than a fix. I'm annoyed because whilst I didn't apply for the role myself it is a grade higher so now have to see someone earn more than me despite knowing and being able to do a lot less. My colleague on the other hand is understandably fuming.
The problem he has is the sector boss is also ultimately his boss so if he posts any kind of complaint which doesn't result in the sector boss being fired for corruption he would be frozen out and life could be made pretty difficult for him.
Now when it comes to private businesses and CEO's hiring their family then whilst annoying it's kind of their business, their rules but we work in the public sector so I was wondering if there are any formal routes my colleague can take?
Now here is some basic facts, my colleague is in his late 30s, has a degree, has worked there for 15 years, has a lot of knowledge of our policies, knows the application system we use inside out, has been working in the department offering the job for a couple of months and he could do the job standing on his head.
The son of the sector boss (who is the boss of the two people who conducted the interviews) is 22, just left Uni with an unrelated degree and has barely been temping at our place for 6 months doing a fairly menial job that is completely unconnected to the role he's just got.
This isn't a case of sour grapes and not a single person at my place thinks this was anything other than a fix. I'm annoyed because whilst I didn't apply for the role myself it is a grade higher so now have to see someone earn more than me despite knowing and being able to do a lot less. My colleague on the other hand is understandably fuming.
The problem he has is the sector boss is also ultimately his boss so if he posts any kind of complaint which doesn't result in the sector boss being fired for corruption he would be frozen out and life could be made pretty difficult for him.
Now when it comes to private businesses and CEO's hiring their family then whilst annoying it's kind of their business, their rules but we work in the public sector so I was wondering if there are any formal routes my colleague can take?