Being 'ghosted' by employer after job offer - please help!

[CarlyD156]

I would love some thoughts/advice. Last Fri (31 May) I was offered a job offer. It's a small organisation (no HR team) but the manager was very communicative, answering my questions on the emails. By Tues we had agreed a salary, which I negotiated to be a bit higher than the original offer.

I wanted to accept but felt like I needed to disclose things. 1 is that I already have leave booked for a 3 week honeymoon, some of which I'd have to take unpaid as I wouldn't accrue enough leave. The second is that I have a health condition that requires me to work from home one day a week. Of course, I could have waited til I had a contract to chat about this stuff but I didn't want anyone to feel 'tricked' and thought it'd be better to be totally upfront.

The problem is, since that email, they have ignored me! It's now end of Friday, so 3.5 days since I contacted them. I am getting really anxious and didn't want it hanging over me over the weekend, so I sent a friendly prompt this morning. But still nothing (it's now 5.30pm).

Has anyone experienced anything similar? What does it sound like has happened? And what would you do in my shoes?? I went through 3 interviews to get the role so I don't want to give up on it, but I also am getting slight red flags!

Thank you xxxx

LOL, I've worked for the DWP and they are useless with disability.

Pretty much anyone can say they are disability confident and use the logos but it doesn't mean that they are, it isn't really checked. There isn't some kind of inspection done.

OP isn't coming back.

A disability is defined as:

A physical or mental health condition that is long term (over 12 months) that impacts your ability to do day to day activities "

So it does sounds even from here that it would be classed as a disability. It can mean something that comes and goes, that is sometimes worse than other times. Mental illness, diabetes, endometriosis, CFS, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, dyslexia and dyspraxia can all be considered disabilities.

Sorry my last post was for @Todaythiscouldbe

Thank you @FundamentallyTired, without giving details I'm honestly not covered under the equality act and it's not considered a disability. It is something I've researched since my diagnosis

OP if you are not willing to disclose the reason you need to work from home then how can we help? Have you declared it to your new employer? If is not a disability then you have not legal right to adjustments. You have raised alarm bells with them and understandably!! You can’t go round assuming you can just ask for this without an explanation.