They seem to have deleted the post
For those of you who say the employee is in the wrong, fuck off. When jobs take weeks to initiate the first interview, to the sheer number of interviews, to being passed over and getting to the last interview to be told no, there's zero expectation as a hiring manager that the employee hasn't received multiple offers. You hope that your offer is the best and they decide to join. To those also saying this is an inconvenience to the employer, sure, but that's why you go with the 2nd choice and move forward.
I don't know the employment laws where this person was, but where I am, it's a right to work state. I can quit at any time with zero warning. I can also be fired at any time with zero warning. I used to do hiring, and for someone to get so ass hurt that they publicly shamed the candidate is insane.
it’s a right to work state. I can quit at any time with zero warning. I can also be fired at any time with zero warning.
IIRC that's at-will employment, right to work is the union busting one.
Yea they could have easilly gotten a better offer at the last minute
I'm not justifying the tantrum, but Indian law is a bit different in this regard. Usually there is a one or three month notice period. If the worker / company wants to terminate the job, they are expected to inform the other party as many months in advance so they can plan accordingly.
Surely they have a probation period though?
That's how it works in France, both ways. Bosses don't like to hear that lol.
I had a friend accept a job and when he showed up the first day they told him that they decided to go with someone else and he doesn't actually have a job and they must have forgotten to tell him. Fucking brutal.
Illegal in EU
Illegal in based land
If by which you mean "almost everyone except America and Canada", yes
According to another comment and the article they cite, it might actually be grounds for a suit in the US too, if the would-be-employee incurs damage for actions taken in reasonable reliance on getting that promised job. I imagine if they quit their old job or rejected other offers because they expected the would-be-employer to honour its promise, that might count as damages.
Whether it's worth suing is a different question, of course.
I worked in an office where a guy came in and on his first day he was taking phone calls from recruiters and discussing other job opportunities. He was shown the door on the same day.
The phone was a shared phone on a desk in an open plan office. His boss sat on the same desk.
lol, either they have huge balls or they're an idiot
That deserves shaming
Nike.
I live near them and only hear bad things
In the US, this isn't illegal, but it is something you can sue an employer over. At-will employment does not apply here.
It's a claim of promissory estopel.
your headline is a lie. "not accepting their offer" is not the same as "accepting their offer then just not showing up". to pretend otherwise is disingenuous.
don't get me wrong, this is a bit unhinged but you're overshadowing a good point by clickbait lying right off the bat.
downvote.
A BIT unhinged? Brother, are corporations so people now that they can crypost on the timeline?
I wouldn’t ever work for this company and I hope more people see this.
alright yeah, it's very unhinged.
On the other hand, all the companies have a "trial period" where they can kick you any day just because.
Why wouldn't an employee apply the same approach?
I live in an ‘at will’ state, this means that either I or my employer can end my employment at any time for any reason. As you can imagine this is both good and wildly abused by employers.
What's the good part
The good part is that the employer is not afraid of hiring someone. I'm from somewhere where employment is a serious commitment - after some time of employment, it's very, very hard to let someone go.
The consequence is that employers are deadly afraid of getting stuck with someone who is not a good worker, basically forever. It means that salaries stay low, because if you raise a salary you can never bring it down again, and you can't get rid of that worker. It also means that some workers just stop giving a fuck as soon as they get "tenure" and can't be let go anymore.
At will employment has a lot of downsides for the worker, but it also means that no one is afraid of hiring and so that you can easily get a job when you need one.
it's just business. the exchange of labor services for money. nothing personal. I don't get upset on behalf of starbucks when someone goes to Tim Hortons
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We received information suggesting he may be handling multiple offers simultaneously
Yes that's what can happen when you're looking for a job. Get over yourself.
Like every single other company out there, I'm sure they also handled multiple applicants.
Literally had a company tell me I got the job and to be on the look out for the official offer in my email just to get the rug pulled from under me. That's just tough shit. The company in the post should've given a better offer
I guess they should try to be a better company to work for then. Nobody would bat an eye if a company did it to a new hire, so fuck em. It's one job, chill out.
Accenture is a horrible choice but the candidate is better off than if they had stayed with these psychos.
Better than Deloitte or PwC from a culture perspective. But they've been pushing so much offshore in recent years that their reputation is taking a hit (granted, the candidate in this scenario IS that overseas resource). At least it wasn't KPMG
Accepting an offer, going through onboarding and then not showing up is very unprofessional. The least you can do is give notice. While it's certainly not OK to publicize this and probably illegal in many jurisdictions, the candidate is clearly also in the wrong here.
I'll agree that companies deserve notice when they decide to start giving two weeks notice before firing someone.
Since that will never happen, this sort of "it's unprofessional" attitude just makes people look like corpo dicksleeves
I accepted an offer, went through a day of training and a half day of work, then left at lunch. Had to use the office phone because this was before I had a cell phone. Turns out I couldn't physically handle working in a tire factory. I was itchy and sweaty and miserable.
Figured out years later I was allergic to latex.
What I'm saying is, maybe the company wasn't a good fit and the candidate didn't figure it out until after onboarding.
It is unprofessional, but the only workplaces that I've seen that happen at have been ones where the pay, benefits and quality of work are so low that they can't expect people to want to work there when they have better options
Bruh probation period cuts both ways. Employer was being measured against alternatives and came up short 🤷🏻♂️
Omfg they even @ him at his alt profile! Chuds!
I'll bet the candidate hadn't signed shit. Very few jobs did I ever have anythig TO sign or any written confirmation the job was mine before the first day of work. The exceptions mostly involved on-the-clock training on company policy and such, and often the pay and department/position to which I would be assigned would STILL be up-in-the-air at that point; still NOTHING in writing to confirm it, and 99% of jobs you still can't be certain what's locked-in until your first paycheck. Had a couple it turned-out they were paying a lower "training" rate during that time, still lower than any 90-day probationary rate or such that had been mentioned.
In what world are we obligated to that?
The world expects us to show up qualified, and we apply for jobs we qualify for, working x machines, processes, what-have you. These ass-holes will gleefully wast weeks of your time on policy questions then have you sweeping a warehouse and running a fork-lift on the opposite end of the campus for a third of the pay. There are companies that are up-front about this and that's another matter. There are plenty more that just lie and act surprised when called on it.
I'm surprised this is even news. This is how the India hiring market works. They have 3-month notice periods. And surely during that time they're juggling multiple interviews and job offers.
If that's a problem, hire somewhere else. Or be the best offer.
Lmao three months?!? Let me guess, there’s nothing stopping the company from telling you to pack up your shit when you give them that notice leaving the possibility of 3 months of unemployment?
Oh, no, they're not as fucked up as the US. The contract will state number of days and BOTH parties have to adhere to it.
Ah well thats good
Pathetic.
That company's website is awe inspiringly bad. A static page does not need a loading bar and the cookie consent banner shouldn't break the whole page on mobile.
Good way to perma yourself from the reputable hiring marketplace.
Lol, lmao even.
A place to post ridiculous posts from linkedIn.com
(Full transparency.. a mod for this sub happens to work there.. but that doesn't influence his moderation or laughter at a lot of posts.)