new engineer, kind of

Surprisingly two people interviewed for the Construction Engineer (EAIII) position in our office. It naturally went the engineer that has been working here for the past year. But the other engineer did get the same position but at the district office. Except he won't jump right into the new job, he'll be a EAII learning how KDOT works for a year before he can take over. Though for some reason he is actually being put to work under our EAIII, and he has a desk in our office, despite working in the office an hour away. I guess he's somehow supposed to learn from our new EAIII, who is actually still learning from our Specialist.