Dear anita,

I am afraid that you did not understand me.
I was told that I was chosen for a job after an interview with the hiring manager, but country HR did not approve my rehire. That I was told.
I did not go directly to country HR to discuss interpersonal conflicts. She was involved afterwards. My manager was not reassigned as a result form that, but put under monitoring for a period.
As I said, I did not want to get into more details with the escalations that followed. This happened 3 years ago, then I worked for 2 years in another team. These days I was browsing linkedin and saw that manager unemployed since June, this year. I don’t know what the fuss was about back then and why 5 or 6 more escalations followed. But they were constantly talking behind his back and how incompetent he was, how he used them to provide him with updates and keep him up to date, how he was never an authority for strategic decisions as he asked colleagues for advise. One of them was very ambitious, and the most competent of them. I assume he was not happy to be inferior to an incompetent person.
As for me. I was in general very thankful to be given such opportunity by that same manager. He gave a chance to a number of people for a better career with lots of opportunities for learning and growth, without these people being related to him somehow. He gave chance to top performers. I never intended to harm his reputation. I was just too sensitive to the poisonous interpersonal atmosphere.