Shady IT Department Forces Applicants To Quit Their Current Jobs, Immediately Eliminates The Job They Applied For

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Oct 16, 2023 4:00 PM EDT

Applying for a new job while you're still employed is a tricky process. It's difficult to know what order you should do things in, especially when a prospective new job wants you to begin as soon as humanly possible. You can risk putting in your two-week notice before you get an offer letter, but that's not very smart. Even if you 100% think you've got the job and just have to sign your offer letter, you should wait until that letter is in front of you and signed before making a rash decision. 

One IT worker recently went viral on Reddit for sharing the story of a company stealing and then discarding another company's workers. The shady company would tell their applicant they needed to quit their current job right away so they could start ASAP, and when the applicants did that, the jobs they were applying for suddenly disappeared. 

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    Font - r/antiwork u/ApexReaders. 1d Be wary of new job offers with employers that offer everything you want
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    Font - I work in IT for a very well-known company 4 of my colleagues left their jobs because they were recruited by companies in direct competition with ours. So what happened when the new jobs were offered they used language like we need you to start as soon as possible, or ASAP so my friends gave 2 weeks notice or signed a letter with the intent to quit, and all of a sudden that job they were getting was no longer there. The company would state we decided to go in another direction or we are r
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    Font - were gone within 2 months of each other after offers from some from the same company. I recently was contacted by a recruiter offering me 20% more than I was making and loads of benefits I declined. My company hired 4 new IT workers at 30% less then what my co-workers were making. I have no proof but I believe these companies are working together to get rid of employees they don't want to fire because they don't want to deal with severance pay in my contract there is a cause I don't get s
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    Font - simonsays1111. 1d More probable the other company is a competitor trying to damage your company. Either way its evil. Reply 938 ...
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    Font - pkinetics. 1d This, especially for IT work. 4237 ↓
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    Font - Quanta Debacle • 23h Any company that tells someone they have a job then tells that person to put in their 2-weeks then doesn't actually give said person said job should be required to pay that person the equivalent of at least one year of the salary they would've made in the position, imo. I'm sure there would be a lost wages case here anyways, but I don't know the specifics. ... 220
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    Font - voice-from-the-womb • 22h You're looking for the legal concepts of detrimental reliance / promissory estoppel, though I don't know that they would get you that much. 488
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    Font - BrisGuy1979. 1d Seems like a warning not to quit without a signed contract that you can take to court for loss of earnings. S.. company trying to loophole people, is going to make it way worse for everyone on both sides in the long term. Every rile, term or condition comes about from someone trying to f someonen over Reply ... 772
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    Rectangle - ascandalia 1d ● Signed contracts are almost unheard of in the US, outside of very highly compensate white collar positions 4194 ...
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    Font - slaan_slaan. 1d Really?? That's weird, it's like the very fist thing I learned about the "working environment": never quit before signing a proper employment contract first. But I am french maybe that's why we think this way 4 132 ↓ ...
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    Font - ascandalia 1d It would be great, but our laws and culture are shockingly pro employer. I'm an engineer in management and I've never met anyone with an employment contract. Best we usually get is an offer letter which is 100% revocable. We can also have our schedule or responsibilities changed for no reason and can be fired for no reason. 4105
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    Rectangle - 00 SteadfastEnd. 1d I'm pretty sure promissory estoppel or something like that would allow these workers to sue for damages. ... Reply 166
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    Font - PMProfessor • 1d Do not give notice in your existing job until after you start your new job. Too many rug pulls. Just leave with no prior notice. Yes, it leaves them in the lurch, but employers created this problem, not you. Reply 431 + ...
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    Font - Miyuki22. 1d Always take paid or unpaid leave rather than submit notice, use that time to trial run the new job. If still not sure, make up some bu to extend the leave for a bit to be sure before making the final decision. Reply ↑ 47 ...
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    Font - TalkingBackAgain. 1d I could totally see this as a strategy to get rid of employees that were too costly to fire. /everybody involved in that on the corporate side should get stomach cramps every day for an hour. Reply 427 ↓ ...
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