urgent job advice needed please!
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Sadly I'm about to resign from what I thought was my dream job...
Happily I have great offers from two other companies.
I'm about to hand my notice in.
I have the two offers in writing, but haven't formally accepted either yet.
I am assuming that because I have the offers in writing they are legally binding, so I'm not actually taking much of a risk by resigning before I accept one.
I'd be really grateful if anyone who actually knows the facts for certain could comment on this!
thanks in advance!
Happily I have great offers from two other companies.
I'm about to hand my notice in.
I have the two offers in writing, but haven't formally accepted either yet.
I am assuming that because I have the offers in writing they are legally binding, so I'm not actually taking much of a risk by resigning before I accept one.
I'd be really grateful if anyone who actually knows the facts for certain could comment on this!
thanks in advance!
If its not written down as a firm and legally binding offer then you're opening yourself up for a world of pain if things do go wrong 'cos all you would have is a verbal agreement and while they are legally binding there's so many things the other party can always claim:
1) What offer? We never made one.
2) We made an offer but it wasn't the one you think we made.
3) Sorry, you didn't accept it in time.
4) We found someone more suited to the job and we reserved our right to do that until a formal agreement was signed.
...The list can go on :-(
1) What offer? We never made one.
2) We made an offer but it wasn't the one you think we made.
3) Sorry, you didn't accept it in time.
4) We found someone more suited to the job and we reserved our right to do that until a formal agreement was signed.
...The list can go on :-(
By no means an expert, but my take on it is that since you haven't accepted an offer, the offer can be withdrawn at any time. The basic foundation of contract is in the notion of offer and a corresponding acceptance. In the absence of an acceptance which has been communicated to the party who extended the offer, that party is at liberty to communicate the withdrawal of the offer. Now whether you could have the following conversation, I don't know, but I suspect you could:
you "i'd like to take you up on the offer"
them: "sorry the offer's been withdrawn"
you: "bugger"
you "i'd like to take you up on the offer"
them: "sorry the offer's been withdrawn"
you: "bugger"
bigandclever said:
you "i'd like to take you up on the offer"
them: "sorry the offer's been withdrawn"
you: "bugger"
T: Well, there is one other opening..
Y: Yes?
T: But we think you dilly dally too much.
Y: Promise I wont!
T: It's a high powered job. More than 400 people under you.
Y: Oh yes?
T: Undertaker at the company cemetery. Ha!
Y: Damn you to hell!
NDT said:
Sadly I'm about to resign from what I thought was my dream job...
Happily I have great offers from two other companies.
I'm about to hand my notice in.
I have the two offers in writing, but haven't formally accepted either yet.
I am assuming that because I have the offers in writing they are legally binding, so I'm not actually taking much of a risk by resigning before I accept one.
I'd be really grateful if anyone who actually knows the facts for certain could comment on this!
thanks in advance!
The offers do not consitute a binding contract until they have been accepted by you. Up until this point they can be withdrawn at any time.
Why dont you just accept one first then resign?
the dodger said:
Never resign from a job until you have accepted another.
Even when you have accepted another offer - nothing is guaranteed. I know of an example where a guy was offered a job on paper, he accepted and handed in his notice. Two days before he was due to start the new company told him they didn't want him any more (because the old guy decided to stay). Because the chaps new contract had a 3 month probation period in it at the start of his new employment, the new company only legally needed to pay him for one day (as the notice period during probation was only a day)... they carried this out to the letter and paid him one day in lieu and told him they didn't want him. He tried to take legal action and was told that it was perfectly legal given his new contract....
Nothing is guaranteed.....
Steve
I had similar issues recently- with a contract that had arrived but I wasn't sure if it was legally binding until or even if I had signed it.
I took a gamble in the end and it all seems to have worked out as I also had two offers.
Sorry to hear that your current job is no longer your "dream job"- I know how THAT goes Nick.
All the best in your future opportunities and endeavors.
Perhaps our paths will cross in real life ( assuming you stay in Automotive...)
>> Edited by Marquis_Rex on Thursday 24th November 13:52
I took a gamble in the end and it all seems to have worked out as I also had two offers.
Sorry to hear that your current job is no longer your "dream job"- I know how THAT goes Nick.
All the best in your future opportunities and endeavors.
Perhaps our paths will cross in real life ( assuming you stay in Automotive...)
>> Edited by Marquis_Rex on Thursday 24th November 13:52
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