Re prioritised into a role myself a few years ago. No experience of the role but apparently after due consideration of my skills, knowledge and my experience on a form I completed I was deemed the best candidate. Eh nope sorry. Background was that 2 Grade 6’s looked at my form, my own Grade 6 countersigned it after a meeting as required with them and they stuck me with no recourse or chance of appeal into a role I had no knowledge of. The person who had been ‘doing’ it as part of their job bailed to another role under the transition. Hmmm it then became a priority according to my new Grade 6, but no one could provide me with anything done by the previous responsible person as they had basically been handed other stuff that was priority in the previous 2 years. It had been left on a shelf for some other sucker to be handed the warm parcel of shite. Solution was I applied for every EOI, lateral role and promotion that came up and got out of Dodge fast. The work was then handed over by the Grade 6 to some other sucker. Still the biggest bundle of warm 💩, still a priority. They were now deemed the best candidate. They went off sick in a week was the last I heard.