Putting in for a much better job in your current workplace that pays better and has way better benefits, and having lovely interviews with people you already work with, and everything seems to be going well...
Only to then be told that you are universally disqualified from taking that position because the job you work currently may create an ethical conflict at some point in the future which would make someone else work a tiny bit harder for a finite period of time.
So are you seriously telling me that I literally cannot move into a job that you're now going to hire someone off the street for because I already work here, when overall policy is to promote from within and reward those that already work here? And I am the only person in this entire place that this applies to?