I don’t know if folks who do this respect the damage you can do to someone’s career and life, not to mention their reputation. My employer will NOT take me back, as they recently promoted me and are insulted I chose to leave. While I am not a vindictive person and will certainly behave professionally and not sink to the level of my would-have-been employers, I certainly will not be using this hospital for any of my medical needs anymore (we were high utilizers, and there is some very good competition down the street). I certainly cannot recommend this hospital to the students I supervise, the colleges I advise students for careers for, my colleages looking for work, or anyone seeking employment in a hospital. I would just recommend the other local competitors who haven’t done horrible things to me.

Five minutes of inconsideration, I suspect not doing the checks or processes that maybe should have been done before I was fully hired, have led to my career being temporarily derailed. Everyone lost here. The hospital lost a great employee. I’m a hard worker and sought after by folks in the building. I will potentially be unemployed, lost my good standing with my current employer, where I could have stayed indefinitely while stealth job searching, and had promotional opportunities. If they didn’t want me, a simple tossing of my resume in the trash or a “no, thanks” would have sufficed.

Save yourself a lot of grief and stress and move on. You have a legitimate reason to be unemployed that will not count against you, and in fact may win you sympathy as stated in the article. Also, if you’ve been smart and saving your money like you should’ve been doing all along, you can fall back on your F-U money to keep the bills paid until you land that new job.

They tried to offer me a lesser 90-day temporary job. I all but told them where to shove it. Success and living well is the best revenge. Glad I avoided that clusterf*** of problems. I was annoyed by the whole situation and eventually found another job.

That makes sense, but there are procedures for dealing with that. They’re called *conditional* offers of employment. You let the person know up front that you want to hire them, but that their actually getting the job hinges on a contract coming in. The official offer letter isn’t given until whatever it hinges on has been determined.

I work in government contracting, so those are pretty common here. (A lot of the time, you have to have resumes in order to bid on work, so people are hired knowing that they’ll get the job only if the company gets the contract.)

In the non-contracting world, I’m sure conditional offers would be less common, but maybe they should be used if the situation calls for it.

But I would say the person in the middle of the street should ask him/herself “WHY”. There might not be a “problem” with him/her but that being turned down after being given an offer may imply: (1) the company had a MUCH better candidate (it’s BS for “that position is going away); (2) he/she needs to be more equipped.

I agree, you should call and ask for a month’s salary, explaining that you had already put in your notice elsewhere, they filled your job, and you have a written letter of offer in your hand confirming the job offer. I would be surprised if they weren’t waiting for you to ask. I have no doubt that someone there is having major pangs of guilt over your situation, not to mention, expectations of legal action.