11 hours ago
(08-29-2026, 04:30 PM)Ogrebear Wrote: As always, thank you for the advise.
Not being very confrontational, am not looking forward to this call, even if it is quick.
I’ve been through this exact pantomime. The mediator calls, you politely inform them your offer is £0, and then — crucially — you absolutely stop talking, because you’ve already given them the only number that matters and you’re not there to provide emotional enrichment for their script.
They’ll pop you on hold, presumably to consult the sacred scrolls of How to Pretend This Is Meaningful, then return to announce — with the kind of faux‑gravitas normally reserved for royal proclamations and village‑hall am‑dram — that your offer has been rejected and mediation is now “over.”
And that’s the whole production: a last‑ditch attempt to spook the average obedient Brit into believing that, because an authority figure has demanded answers, they must immediately collapse into a posture of contrition. You’re not on the back foot; you’re simply refusing to audition for their little morality play.
It’s just another hoop in the grand obstacle course designed to make you pay a Mickey‑Mouse invoice dressed up as a legal proceeding — a pantomime cow in a judge’s wig.
