I know what you mean. But reading again the recruitment process was for "third-level specialist training position (ST3)" which I think is the 3rd year of a 5 ye

I know what you mean. But reading again the recruitment process was for "third-level specialist training position (ST3)" which I think is the 3rd year of a 5 year training. So everyone was in training, its just that the relative ranking got messed up. Its not like random people could apply. So I guess thats why they decided to honor their (frankly terrible) job offer fuck ups.