Something similar happened to me, but it didn't have a happy ending. My last year in college I had to stay for fall semester because of scheduling issues with

Something similar happened to me, but it didn't have a happy ending. My last year in college I had to stay for fall semester because of scheduling issues with a required class, so I needed a job for a summer. A local firm -- and let's name names: Marshall Erdman, since purchased by Cogdell Spencer http://www.cogdell.com/ http://www.cogdell.com/ -- offered me a programming job. I accepted about 4 weeks before I started, and in doing so, turned down other job offers. My fourth working day, my boss, her boss, and an entire wing of people were laid off. In typical classy fashion, people figured out who was going when they couldn't login to outlook. Somehow they forgot about me though. So I literally spent the next 6 working days finishing already assigned work and coming to work in a wing of the office that was literally deserted except for me. Finally, I walked into the president's office and asked what I should do. I got a general, "huh?" reception; HR fired me that day. Of course, these assholes gave me no severance or anything else -- they just said, "Oops, our bad." Since I was in college, I didn't exactly have much savings and normally by the end of the semester I was living paycheck to paycheck so this couldn't have come at a worse time. I managed to string together enough jobs to make rent, but it was a close call. And employers wonder why employees don't feel any loyalty :rolleyes: I applaud the author of the post above; I should have done the same thing.