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>Just like how a company can't sue you if you recind after signing a contract How would that work? Wouldn't that be a breach of a binding contract, or is there
by khedoros 10y ago
>Just like how a company can't sue you if you recind after signing a contract
How would that work? Wouldn't that be a breach of a binding contract, or is there usually some kind of exit clause to account for specific circumstances?
- billmalarky 10y agoWell it is "at will" employment, so you're more or less quitting the new job immediately. Most people would of course not turn down a job immediately _after_ signing a job offer. They just wouldn't sign the job offer. What I was getting at, is I had heard somewhere that companies can be liable if they extend a job offer then rescind it causing the employee considerable harm. Sounds like it is a "it depends" type of situation.
- jimmydddd 10y agoSometimes, while interviewing for multiple jobs, the window to accept an offer for job A ends before you receive an offer for (preferable) job B. So you accept job A as a hedge, and then immediately rescind job A if you get the offer for job B.
- fdsaaf 10y agoAnd there's nothing wrong with that, since if you view A and B as actors, they're both (because they're inhuman corporations) psychopathic monsters who will fuck you over in an instant
- munin 10y agothe legal action is "promissory estoppel" and it basically never happens. the risk to the employer is very low.
- damienkatz 10y agoIf you can quit your job for any reason in an at-will state, then it seem logical you can quit before actually starting.
- khedoros 10y agoThe operative word that I'm questioning is "contract". I assumed they meant something about a contract specifying minimum employment times, or something. If you aren't bound by a signed contract, of course it makes sense that you could quit.