So I have a slight problem.
At the moment in my workplace it is looking very like that on the 1st of January there will be less positions available than people. With most contracts ending on the 31st of December, that means at least one person will be leaving.
Most of the team know their jobs are safe, which leaves me and one other person whose roles will not be continuing. There is some hope however in that there is another job in a different team that works quite closely with our team. For me this is very good news as I am very confident that I will get that job.
The problem is that the other person only found out about this job yesterday, and was very keen to apply for it as it was essentially his only chance to keep his job. However the person specification is such that I meeyt it and he does not. In their view it is essentially the case that despite working in the same job for a year doing similar work, he has not had a fair chance to apply for a position that he could potentially be capable of doing.
To make matters worse I know some members of the team in question have been operating under the assumption that I would be joining their team in January and may have given the impression this job was created with the intention of me getting it.
My concern is that this could become a source of conflict in the workplace and I was wondering if people had any experiences or ideas for how to avoid the problem?