Advice on Accepting of Job Offer - please read

Teterow

Good afternoon,

I am currently covering someones maternity and my contract ends in a few weeks.
Internally I have applied for another role, for which I have just had a job offer. I am in two minds about accepting and wanted to ask for outside advice.

The new job would require me to work most of the week in London and offers me 5K more than what I am on at the moment, which is not great and I am the only breadwinner, but hopefully that will change soon. My current job also comes with a company car, which is the only car in the household. In the new role, I would not have access to a company car. The job in London is also 2.5hrs by train from my home and I am not planning to relocate, as the new job is for 6th months initially.
If I had the choice and there would have been many jobs in my area, I would have not applied for this role. But the company in general is good to work for.

At my company you get an annual payrise, which this year, was 1.5%. The 5K payrise, would in effect be £1850 pa (5K minus £2700 London Weighting minus my annual pay rise).

Also, the lady from HR rang to tell "we would like to offer you the job. This is the start date and this is the salary. Would you like to accept?"

I mean I have nothing in writing etc....

What is your view?

Emmzi

unpleasant new job vs no job at all is a no brainer in my book.

Whay are you conflicted? Can you afford not to work?

David_Brent

Go for it if I was you - can you not get a train into London to work rather than drive? Surely be quicker for you? If you can't is it worth renting a place in the city for 6 months and home at weekends etc? If you are the main source of income maybe you seriously need to discuss a move further south once settled in your new job (but not straight away as you don't know if you will like the job yet).

Teterow

I have now verbally accepted but waiting to get the contract.

getmore4less

At my company you get an annual payrise, which this year, was 1.5%. The 5K payrise, would in effect be £1850 pa (5K minus £2700 London Weighting minus my annual pay rise)

£5k - £2700 - £1850 = £450 thats 1.5% of £30k

Thats a big commute for not a lot of money.

What is the cost of the commute.

Is it worth negotiating something for the loss of the car

You could be worse off if not carefull even with the car tax dropping off.