Ooh I do love a cream tea, it's the Devonshire dumpling in me.
How long is your contract for MrsB? If you've been in your job for a while and it's an enforced move the new management team just have to lump it, but horrible having to tell new people.
I'm in a similar kind of situation, I've been in my current job for quite a few years on fixed term, and they've been wanting to make me permanent for the last couple of years (waiting for me to get a permanent visa) they were going to give me the permanent contract back in April just before I found out I was pregnant but then there has been a delay, by the time they will be ready to give me the permanent contract I will already be 16 wks, and it feels wrong not to tell them by then, but if I tell them I risk them deciding to keep me on contract until I toodle off on maternity leave, so that would mean bye bye maternity pay and bye bye job to come back to afterwards. I keep hoping they'll stay true to their word and honour their promise of permanent me, but DH thinks I'm living in cloud cuckoo land. He's quite peed off that this has happened and is a bit galled by the fact we cocked up the timing. Oh well.