Should I take the job?

[Clydethecaterpillar]

I’ve been offered a job in the big smoke as it were.

one day a week in the office, im asking if they can do every other week and have it written into my contract. It would be a pricey train ride. But it’s a 10k pay rise.

im conflicted. If you’ve read my other thread, I work at the same company as a former friend, and they’ve gone on the offensive, started a few rumours and they are more snr than me but a different area of the business. I applied for this job in anger after one allegation was made (it was promptly dismissed) and truthfully didn’t think I’d get the job, but to my surprise they offered it me.

im conflicted. I live. 2.5 hr train ride away and it would be a long ass commute, but conversely people do more, people do Leeds to london.
more money BUT less benefits, 5 days less holiday, less Life Insurance, less Mat leave 4 months v 26 weeks full pay. I also really like my line manager and the role is easy but sometimes boring. There’s also the allegations and a corporate ‘reimagining’ has just been announced no details what that looks like yet. Truthfully I’m doubting my abilities a bit too and I’d feel bad for leaving, I feel like I’d be letting my manager down.

someone give my head a wobble (to use MN parlance) wwyd. Would you take it, if so why? If not, why not?

tia. Appreciate your help on this one :)

Did you not think about this BEFORE you applied?! What a huge amount of the company's time you have wasted if you don't take it. It never ceases to amaze me how many people apply for jobs, go through the process and then start thinking about whether they actually want it. Beyond selfish!

Didn’t think I’d get it, we’re in negotiation of terms here, so they’ve not let the other candidates know if they were successful or not

Oh get stuffed! Companies waste candidates' time to a ridiculous degree. If the boot's on the other foot, so what? I say this as someone who spent 20 years doing interviews as part of my job for one of the big 4.

So they upped the offer by another 5k per year and went down to every other week.

Take it!!!

What a huge amount of the company's time you have wasted if you don't take it.

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Ah yes. They'll be crying into their millions over the weekend but god forbid our op take a chance on a job.

Right! Or the time to reflect, the large corporate enterprise will surely crumble

I keep having thoughts that if I leave I’m letting people down or burning bridges because I’ve been there less than a year, or that it will reflect on my manager and they’ll hate me, but the truth is it’s this person and then CoL on top

You'll probably have an exit interview, you can tell them exactly why you are leaving. You have been there less than a year, and you already have rumours, allegation etc as a result of workplace bullying, company is restructuring so you're concerned about the security of your job, and this job is offering higher pay/more remote working.

You can also highlight in the exit interview how great your boss was, big up all the things you enjoyed about the job. That you would have been very happy had more been done about the bullying and your job more secure.

thats good advice! Thank you :)