North Carolina employee gets fired before his first day for missing an orientation nobody told him about: ‘If I knew this would have happened I would have never quit my other job’

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I signed a job offer in NC and they fired me because I didn't show up to the orientation they never informed me of. Is there any type of legal standing?
Location: NC. I interviewed for, and signed a formal job offer for a very large company located in Raleigh North Carolina. After 10 days of crickets, I reached out to the manager following up about my start date. I was informed he didn't know, but they were trying
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to set something up. He then reached back out a week later to let me know that orientation was actually the day before I followed up with him, and that because I never showed up I was dispositioned, and that I would need to reaccept a new job offer.
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I never received any type of call or email informing me of my start date. It turns out the only notice was on a company app that's part of a bring-your-own- phone program, but they explicitly say downloading the app is optional. For about a
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week after I pretty much followed up everyday/other day (I'm nothing if not annoying and persistent), and I was consistently getting told that my start date would either be within a week, or that hr should have sent out my
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job offer and that they were going to follow up. It's been a month of this. I don't even want to work there anymore, but it's partly the principle of it all, and also the thought of having to go back to the job market is nauseating. If I knew this would
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have happened I would have never quit my other job. Is there any legal standing for any part of this, or do I accept that I'm really stupid and dumb?
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ColSurge There is nothing you can legally do here (and it's not because you are stupid). You are in an at-will employment state. The company can pull a job offer, not extended another job offer, they can fire you on day one, and they can fire you for missing an orientation that you knew nothing about.
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Abichail Sounds like they are still wanting to hire you and it's just more paperwork? Since you need to reaccept the job offer? Then you aren't fired, it's just beaurocracy being bureaucratic.
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Hcsk38 You dodged a bullet. If they are that much of a disorganized mess for a new hire, imagine what it is for existing employees!
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Iceflowers NAL load the app and ask for a start date. Look on the app for any information including documents. It's not illegal. There's simply. zero protection going into any job.
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