Posted: 8/13/2008 1:19:04 PM EDT
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I'm in a strange predicament now. I'm about ready to be offered a job that I really do not want. Yet tomorrow I have an interview for a job I do want, and I do feel very confident that I can obtain the position. I have not been offered the job that I do not want yet, but I will be offered it in a day or two it seems. This is a predicament I simply have never been presented with. What say the hive mind? |
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For the job you don't want, make sure they give you the offer in writing. If it the written offer it does not say we need a response by XYZ date, then simply call them up, tell them you've received the offer but will need a few days to think it over. Hopefully at the end of those few days you'll have a job offer in hand for the job you do want. If not, try and delay a couple more days. Or if worse comes to worse, take the job you don't want so you at least have some income and when a better one comes along take that one. We had that happen at my employer. Manager was supposed to start, he was here 2 days, then skipped out because a job offer came along from a better employer and if I was in his position I would have done the same thing. |
Just turn them down then. When it comes to business in most cases, they have no loyalty to you, so why should you feel loyal to them? You've got to look out for you. Don't be unhappy if you don't have to be. |
Well, you do make a very realistic point. They haven't even sent me drug test paper work yet, which usually takes a few days to process, but tomorrow they want me to stop out and correct a paper work error, which I assume after that, everything else would get moving along, I.E. drug test, background check, etc. So, I guess I should just wait and see how the interview tomorrow goes. |
QFT. The only person who looks out for number one is number one. |