Posted on 02/23/2023 6:58:10 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
After a successful summer internship at a mortgage tech company, Alana Klopstein was thrilled to get a job offer.
She signed the contract in January 2022, giving her peace of mind during her final year at UC San Diego. Then in June, three months before her start date, she got an email from the company.
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My son mentioned this (works in IT) - friends who had solid job offers that were later rescinded.
My son was also recruited by several companies - said the interviews often last 5-6 hours and extend over two to three days - but the final job offers didn’t come through, when he was sure they would. One company said they’d get back to him with salary talk - but never did and didn’t respond when he reached out.
He also said his friends are being laid off from (well-paying) IT jobs. He isn’t happy with his current job but says there’s no way he’d quit in this job market.
Back during the Great Recession, I went through the hiring process, was selected, flew to the other city, interviewed and got the offer which I accepted.
Then they just refused to ever give me a start date.
I called and wrote but they just never gave me a straight answer. That was 2008. This is a supposedly reputable company that has since been bought out by an even bigger one.
So sleazy, scummy, unethical and grossly unprofessional things have been done by companies long before this. As much as I hear complaints about employees being unprofessional, I’m here to remind everybody that’s not a one way street. Companies do it too.
During the job-hunting process I developed the attitude that I did not expect a call-back after an interview.
If they called, great! If not, I was onto the next interview.
Like you, I have learned to push for a written offer with a start date before turning in my notice.
Even that isn’t assured.
I had a buddy that was 24 hours away from quitting a six figure job (in late 2001), selling his house and moving his family 800 miles. The company was pushing him for an acceptance and he was very hesitant despite the wonderful 30% increase in salary. The next morning he woke up to the news that the offering company, Enron, was declaring bankruptcy.
A day’s difference he would have quit a good job and been out of a job. Business HR departments are without shame.
Wife is doing remote support work for an energy/tech company.
They’ve installed so many new ‘performance’ roadblocks it’s clear that they’ve intentionally & dramatically lowered the bar to permit mass firings rather than incur the expense of layoffs.
You don’t want a start date if the company isn’t going to be able to pay you because conditions have deteriorated since you interviewed.
I had this happen at the end of last year. The company used my resume as a part of their bid for contract work. I had signed a offer contingent on them getting the contract.
Once they had the contract, they drug their feet until I couldn’t/wouldn’t hire on.
Luckily I got a huge raise at my current job that matched their contingent offer.
Stolen elections have serious consequences.
My computer scientist daughter’s division got laid off at McKesson last summer. They wanted her to train the contractors from India they were going to use. She quit.
She took a job with the IT department in a local school district. She’s getting married and just bought a house with her fiance. The job at the school district is a little boring, but has lots of vacations and is stable.
My other data analyst daughter took a job with the GSA department of the federal government. It’s a 2 year program for new college graduates. She has a disability. I don’t know how she’d handle being in a high pressure job with layoffs.
At least my kids have jobs. I’m thankful. Hard times for lots of kids these days.
I changed jobs right when 9/11 hit. Talk about rescinded job offers. But it ultimately worked out and I’m still at the place I went to at that time.
“They wanted her to train the contractors from India they were going to use.”
It is no longer “Learn to Code.” The current catch phrase is “Learn to Prompt.”
AI is destroying the IT, Business Management, Journalism, Art, Factory (Amazon is building a thousand robots a week), and tons of other professions. Human’s are becoming useless meat sacks.
Microsoft laid off 12,000 workers but spent 10 billion on AI. Just yesterday Coke Cola (all 500 brands) just became a new alliance partner of OpenAI for marketing and consumer experiences / plus more.
A co-worker at a software company had applied for a job as a trainer on IBM machines years before at another company He knew IBM machines and programming like the back of his hand. The job was getting non-IBM programmers up to speed.
He was offered the job, and accpeted, quit current his job etc. His first day on the new job, he met two others who had accepted the same position, quitting there previous jobs also.
They were all told to draw up a presentation of a training session, which they had to give in front of the executives at the new company. The coworker got the job, other two were told to leave, after two days.
It was really just an audition for a job inspite of the fact all 3 had been told they had been hired, and all had quit their old jobs.
That sounds normal for software developer jobs. Full day of interviews with many whiteboard demonstrations that you know how to code or to see how well you solve logical or practical problems. The department might want you but they have to get funding approved and are completing with other departments...interviewing in software is a lot of work sometimes.
They should have been sued for that.
Should add that there is often anxiety that if they do not give a job offer or imply they are ready to give one that the developer might get hired by someone else.
On of the unfortunate things you learn living abroad is how to curse in multiple languages. I got into a heated argument with the Dean of Academic Affairs at the last University where I worked. Words in several languages were used.
Six months later, despite being recommended for tenure by the Tenure and Promotion committee, she decided to not only not offer tenure, but to not offer another contract.
I was retired at 55. Yep, it ain’t just private firms with vicious HR departments.
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