Are the pulling the job offer on me? What's your thoughts

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I am due to start a new job after Christmas. I have passed all the background checks etc etc mths ago and had the offer for 3 mths and have been so excited to start. I got an email from recruitment person asking if I'm free tomorrow as they are doing some kind of "organisational restructure" that they want to get me up to speed on. what the hell does this mean?! It's 3 weeks until Christmas I can't be left jobless my husband is off stick atm and I need this job so so much. Do you think this is them pulling the offer ? Please help

I think a lot of companies are doing restructuring at this time. All you can do is go along and hope the news is positive. Good luck

Thanks for replying. I'm honestly sick with worry. The timing coukd not be worse

Have you signed a contract yet?

@GetOffTheRoof yes I have

It's quite likely they just want to tell you that the role needs to change in focus/sit in another part of the org/report to someone new now. Organisations don't generally recruit roles that they end up killing before the person even starts, because it's a big fat waste of their time and money.

Try not to catastrophise. See what happens.

@astronewt thanks for that. My anxiety is at the max

It could be bad news or it could be that they need to make changes to the role.

There is nothing you can do tonight but try and take your mind of it. What can you do to distract yourself?

I have emailed her back but no response yet

@MajorCarolDanvers but if I've signed a contract do I have any standing? I am so worried.

If you have a contract, you could sue if they were to pull the job: www.acas.org.uk/if-your-job-offer-is-withdrawn
It could also be though that the job has been moved to a new department or has more or fewer responsibilities... Too many variables to guess tbh.

Unfortunately even with a contract the most they will need to do is pay your notice period.
However, it could just be that they are changing your role a bit - it might even be a good thing

I've had similar previously, the role had changed and had different responsibilities they wanted to check that I was still interested.

Could be a simple change of who you will be reporting to. Or change to the job role.

@Singleandproud ok cool. Coukd it be a lesser job on lesser salary? I don't mind as long as it's not a big pay cut type situation

Distract yourself op! You will find out tomorrow, you can do this

Chances are you’ll be fine. Either they want to change the role slightly, or the structure (ie you may have a different boss, different direct reports ). If they were going to pull the job they’d probably just email it

If they pull a firm offer I'd expect them to pay notice in lieu.

Unfortunately statutory notice is 0 in your first two months so check the contract to see if you have a contractual notice period.

Horrible of them to leave you dangling like this. Yes there's a chance they have pulled the role, or someone else is at risk of redundancy and they have decided to redeploy them to avoid redundancy costs, bit honestly no one can tell from the information you've given.

So would the consensus be that it's more likely not necessarily bad news?

I wouldn't say this is bad news at all and is most likely a small change of structure/reporting lines which will impact you and will be slightly different to what you've discussed at interview.

Do you not have contacts in the company? I’m concerned it’s the recruitment consultant contacting you. And not a future manager. It’s not necessarily bad news, but I think there may be changes to the role,

@Cheeseandhoney yes I have a contact manger. See this was my concern the fact that it's the recruitment person and not the manger but maybe in larger companies this is how it works? I have gone through all their background checks and signed my contract back in sept so I'll be cheesed off if 21 days before I start they withdraw on me

The opening line was along the lines of "I hope you're on the wind down for Christmas" and about me being "kept up to speed" with the restructure. It seems quite casual for someone about to tell me
Their withdrawing offer. Do you think the language around this matters?

Did they use the phrase 'get you up to speed on?'

Because if they're pulling the offer, I don't think they'd couch it in those terms would they? They hardly need to 'bring you up to speed' on them dumping you

They WOULD need to get you up to speed on departmental changes etc

@OtterInABox yes they used those words. I think I've stressed a bit but now that I've got over the shock I think and hope that that's the case ! Hopefully she'll reply to me soon

Based on what you've said, I think it's much, much more likely they want to tell you about a structural change which will affect the role in some regard rather than they're pulling the offer. I certainly couldn't swear to it, anything is possible, but I think it's a more likely hypothesis in the first place made more likely by the way they've framed it to you.