Primary School Job Applications- AIBU? – Page 2 – Chat Forum

sharkattack · 2024-10-16T10:32:16Z

I’ll try to keep this brief because I could go on all day about what a shitshow my partner’s primary school is. The wife is a primary teacher in a rough part of Sheffield. She’s really good at her job and she has the patience of a saint. She comes home every day with absolute horror stories and I’m 100% sure I wouldn’t last a week in the same job. She’s (miraculously) been there 5 years and she wants a change of scenery so she started applying for jobs but didn’t tell anyone at work. She secured an interview at a school much closer to home and she only told me and no one else. This morning she arrived at work to be greeted by the caretaker who said that he’d heard she was leaving and had an interview lined up elsewhere. Long story short; Someone at the new school (unknown to us) saw where the applicant was from, blabbed to her mate who’s a teacher in another school, who blabbed to her husband who works for the trust which my wife’s school is part of. He turned up to work this morning, went straight to the heads’ office to tell her about the interview and apparently anyone else he met on the way. So now everyone knows that the wife is trying to escape, when she intended to go job hunting privately. Is it just me or is this massively out of order? When you are applying for a job should you expect some level of trust or confidentiality from the place you’re applying to? There’s multiple people here treating her job application like gossip. Is this level of openness and transparency to be expected? As far as I know it’s normal for schools to share information like this. It’s made me really angry but I won’t really know how the Mrs feels until tonight. This is not an isolated incident though, the place is a shambles and this is just the latest thing so I’m ready to start writing formal letters of complaint. Should I remain pee’d off or chill out and suck it up?

DaveyBoyWonder

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Someone at the new school (unknown to us) saw where the applicant was from, blabbed

Find out who this person is and then bombers and frozen sausages

Posted : 17/10/2024 9:41 am

zomg

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Unprofessional behaviour in recruitment is probably the most common red flag people can see before joining a new organisation. I’ve learned to heed it.

Posted : 17/10/2024 10:09 am

martinhutch

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Given that the local education news network seems to be working so efficiently, why would you want every potential future employer to know that you're firing in official complaints?

If she must raise it, go through with the interview process, then, hopefully having secured the position, she can turn them down and tell them why.

Posted : 17/10/2024 10:49 am