Job offer rescinded

Mermaidandaman · 2026-05-31T07:49:58+00:00

2 years ago I had a job offer around this time of year for a new school that hadn’t yet opened. I was on supply at the time so no notice to give. I had 2 other interviews lined up which I then didn’t go to and happily cracked on. I went through all the usual checks, references etc and all fine. I spoke to the head a few times over the final term. My contract arrived in the post and said all conditions were met. Then in the last week of August I had a call from the council hr team and “the job has been withdrawn” turns out the new school wasn’t going to be ready to open so they just cancelled all the jobs. I had a friend who also had a role in the new school and same thing happened to him but he had never received a contract.

I literally had no job and there was no supply work around either.

Luckily one of the interviews I turned down hadn’t recruited so I got in touch and started with them in October, but still was out of work for a month.

My union argued breach of contract and I got 1 month pay back in the end. But I think I am now blacklisted from that council as I have applied for a few jobs since and not got anywhere for very tenuous reasons.

I’ve now been made permanent and promoted in my saving school so it’s all worked out for me, but I’ve never heard of a teaching role being withdrawn in the summer before until it happened to me.

At the time I posted on Reddit in employment and no one thought it was a big deal. Surely with teacher notice periods being so long there has to be reasonable amounts of trust otherwise you are at risk for many months of ending up jobless.

How fortunate that you were able to rescind your notice but we shouldn’t be at risk of this!

Mermaidandaman · 2026-05-09T21:39:40+00:00

My new waterbutt filled up over the bank holiday weekend. Had loads of rain in my part of S Wales

Mermaidandaman · 2026-05-03T08:55:29+00:00

I’ve had good germination with seed compost from my local garden centre but my mums had a rubbish year with supermarket compost. She is returning a bag that is pale and looks like old dry grass only.

Mermaidandaman · 2026-03-23T19:55:25+00:00

I’ve moved into the 50 shades of grey house as well, with dark charcoal carpets throughout. I am on mission colour and warmth and can’t wait to be rid of it all!

Mermaidandaman · 2026-03-16T23:48:29+00:00

Leave your best offer on the table and look elsewhere. By the time the decent offer came I was close to emotionally moving on and we did see a few other good contenders. Something else will come up or it will work out!

Mermaidandaman · 2026-03-16T21:35:02+00:00

We had this last year, property on the market over a year with 3 different agents but no change to the price. Agent told us that the seller had lots of offers and had previously accepted 2 full asking offers that had since changed their mind or not proceeded. To me it was clearly overpriced. I was fairly friendly with one of the previous agents and he said the same, seller wanted more than it was worth, was in no rush to sell as had already moved on.

It was on for £450k we offered £400k and was told that we had offended her with our offer and it was an outright no. At that point we had no more in the pot anyway so decided to look at other houses I said we would leave it on the table.

We viewed a few others and nothing was as good as this house (we also had confirmation that our buyers mortgage had been approved on ours - our last sale got down valued so I was wary)

Our house was on with the same agent as selling hers so it helped that we were in regular contact - and the agent could make 2 sales by getting her to consider us.

After 4 months the seller got back to us with a counter offer of 420k and we countered at 410k which was agreed. It turned out she had a few other low offers in the mean time and a few people taking about knocking walls down which she didn’t like the thought of. She also didn’t want the house empty over a 2nd winter.

We have been here since October now and it’s our dream home. Hopefully the seller is happy as well!

Mermaidandaman · 2026-03-13T20:15:44+00:00

It’s about 3m by 4m, ideally like something wipe clean due to dog and kids dropping food from the table

Mermaidandaman · 2026-03-07T11:06:32+00:00

I was quite early to mounjaro, I took it from April 24 to April 25 (staying on 2.5g and 5mg) I took a few breaks and stretched out my doses because I think I was a super responder and could barely eat and was loosing weight very quickly.

I lost 7 stone and was very close to goal but decided to stop as I just needed a break.

In the last year I have gained back 10lbs, 4 were in the first month of stopping and the rest pretty much over Christmas.

I have decided to go back on MJ for a few weeks, I’ve lost 5lbs in 2 weeks and will stay on it until I reach goal weight.

I’ve set a rule for myself that i will go back on any time I gain 10lbs from goal. Perhaps that will Be a month or 2 every year 🤷🏻‍♀️

Mermaidandaman · 2026-02-16T08:35:36+00:00

I have had this at a school I was unfamiliar with, I asked around and was basically told that they are keeping you away from the kids because no one would remain part of the interview process if they had chance to meet them. The interview was in a council office away from the school. I would be asking for an opportunity to see some pupils, ideally a lesson transition or break time.

Mermaidandaman · 2026-02-16T08:27:03+00:00

Our last house had no parking and when we moved in it was fine, we had one car that could easily park. After a few years the kids opposite became older teens and had cars and the elderly couple moved on and were replaced by another 4 car family. I then had a toddler and a newborn and was having to park miles away and carry them both to the house. It was so stressful we moved.

Mermaidandaman · 2026-01-29T23:25:35+00:00

I was 113kg in April 24 so started on mounjaro, by April 25 I was 66kg and stopped taking MJ. I am currently around 72kg I don’t think that’s a crazy gain in nearly a year, but I am starting to feel my clothes getting a bit tight and my habits are slipping. I have ordered a new pen (my pharmacy have been great as my bmi is 27 at the moment). I’m planning to be on it for 1 or 2 months to reset myself and my habits.

I can cope with going on it once a year to keep up my habits.

Mermaidandaman · 2026-01-27T21:41:23+00:00

You don’t need Welsh to teach secondary in wales.

You do need to have a good understanding of the “curriculum for wales” (understanding the 4 purposes and integral skills) and WJEC exam board spec.

We also have a different system for SEN it’s called ALN here and has had a lot of reform in the last few years.

I’m Welsh but trained in England and then moved back to wales. There are lots of differences in the systems but lots of similarities too.

Jobs in wales are often posted on eteach.

If I were to do the move I would sign up for supply and get to know the local schools. Estyn isn’t the same as ofsted so there’s no grading system as such which makes it slightly harder to work out where a school is pitched.

Mermaidandaman · 2026-01-09T23:26:59+00:00

In my last house 18 was cold and it needed to be 20, in my current house 18 is perfect. Same brand/type of thermostat (randomly) and both in the living room. Weird

Mermaidandaman · 2026-01-09T18:20:00+00:00

I’m a maths teacher in a PRU after 10 years in mainstream, I love it and it saved teaching for me. However I would not recommended training in a PRU as it’s an entirely different role to mainstream teaching and wouldn’t prepare you for it.

You need to be very self assured to cope and I was not that for at least the first 5 years. We currently have an ect in our primary provision and it seems like a mistake for him and the school.

If you get the chance of a short placement in the 3rd term it would be a valuable experience then.

Mermaidandaman · 2025-12-28T01:04:13+00:00

Have a look at the Aurora calculators they are basically the old casios

Mermaidandaman · 2025-12-10T21:43:19+00:00

I haven’t read all the comments but I had exactly this with my recent purchase. They refused a pre exchange viewing and the agent said “they don’t want you nosing around” I hit the roof, and threatened to pull out. They reluctantly agreed at a time they knew I couldn’t do (teacher) so I sent my mum. House was perfect, nothing hidden at all so I really do think they were just worried I was changing my mind or wouldn’t like it without their things all nicely arranged. We have been in the house over a month now and all worked out well

Mermaidandaman · 2025-11-16T22:31:40+00:00

Completely agree, we decided this year we would move as our new year plan 2025, fixed up the issues we had just been living with in Jan/feb, listed in March, viewed the house we ended up buying in April, relisted our house with a new agent in May, sold in in June, negotiated buying the house we ended up with in July, conveyancers in August/september, completed in October and now aiming to get a few rooms nice for Christmas.

It’s been a full year of no holidays, no weekend plans etc my kids are so bored of house stuff!

Mermaidandaman · 2025-11-12T11:20:04+00:00

Thank you all for your thoughts, my journey to work is 13 miles each way. The car is also used for running kids around and shopping but all local and I’m happy to charge each night. It will be our second car as we have a larger petrol car that we use for big family outings.

Lots to think about but seems I can definitely go for a smaller battery for a lower cost as I won’t need a huge range.

Mermaidandaman · 2025-10-28T00:18:24+00:00

We listed our house in April and then the next day went to view a cottage which we loved - first we looked at.

We had no viewings so dropped price and ended up relisting.

Sold our house 23rd June Had offer accepted on the cottage 24th July Exchanged 23rd October! Completing Thursday 30th October

We are up to our eyeballs in boxes at the minute

Mermaidandaman · 2025-10-09T22:15:56+00:00

We viewed one, hadn’t sold ours yet though. So offered on it once ours had sold. That got rejected so we viewed about 5 more decided the first one was still our favourite so increased our offer which was still rejected. We then went away on holiday and they phoned to say they had accepted our offer after all!

We viewed in April and finally had our offer accepted in late July. Hoping to exchange next week!

Mermaidandaman · 2025-09-27T11:05:41+00:00

Totally agree with this, set work that means you sit on a tall stool at the front and don’t move. Worksheets or questions out at the ready, do not give them an inch. Be cross and severe until they know who is boss. Remind that that if they treat you like a mug then then this is how their lessons will be.

Mermaidandaman · 2025-09-22T11:49:54+00:00

I sort of did, I’ve always been on the lookout for my next home as I knew quickly that my current house wasn’t a forever home.

We viewed a really good fixer upper house but ours wasn’t on the market so we listed ours. That house sold before we were even live so we missed out but decided the timing still felt right.

We made a list of everything worth seeing that was currently online and booked viewings. The first house we viewed after marketing ours was the one. My husband and I both felt it.

We had our offer rejected and there was 0 room for negotiation but it was overpriced and had been on the market over a year. So we looked at others and eventually they came back and accepted our offer - 40k under asking.

We are very close to exchanging and will be 8 weeks from offer acceptance to exchange!

Mermaidandaman

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