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It isn't allowed in any other industry I know of though. At an extreme, imagine getting a contract to work at company X, so you quit your current job and move

It isn't allowed in any other industry I know of though. At an extreme, imagine getting a contract to work at company X, so you quit your current job and move to the other side of the country, just to be told they overprovisionned the position expecting some candidates to flake out and void your contract with a ticket to get extra bonus next time you get to work for them. Or getting a loan to buy a house, just to be told at the last minute that someone else beat you to the line. In most other situations we'd have the airlines eat the risk,and they'd need to find other ways to make it work (have a pool of non priority cargo to fill the plane for instance)

bombcar 2y ago
Many or almost all subscription services are oversubscribed. Cable Internet, Internet in general, gym memberships, etc. The question is what happens when it hits maximum.
gruez 2y ago
>At an extreme, imagine getting a contract to work at company X, so you quit your current job and move to the other side of the country, just to be told they overprovisionned the position expecting some candidates to flake out and void your contract with a ticket to get extra bonus next time you get to work for them. You don't need to overprovision employees because if one person flakes out, you can move onto the next best candidate. There's very little cost to doing this, and therefore companies don't do it because of the negative blowback they might get if the scenario you described happen. Moreover, have you forgotten the tech layoffs of 2022/2023? They were underprovisioned one day, and the next they were overprovisioned, and hundreds/thousands got laid off. People even had their offers rescinded after they put in notice at their previous company, or after they've already located. >Or getting a loan to buy a house, just to be told at the last minute that someone else beat you to the line. The house isn't yours until you sign on the dotted line. Before then the house is heavily oversubscribed. There might be dozens of buyers with offers for the same house.

bombcar 2y ago

Many or almost all subscription services are oversubscribed. Cable Internet, Internet in general, gym memberships, etc. The question is what happens when it hits maximum.

gruez 2y ago

>At an extreme, imagine getting a contract to work at company X, so you quit your current job and move to the other side of the country, just to be told they overprovisionned the position expecting some candidates to flake out and void your contract with a ticket to get extra bonus next time you get to work for them. You don't need to overprovision employees because if one person flakes out, you can move onto the next best candidate. There's very little cost to doing this, and therefore companies don't do it because of the negative blowback they might get if the scenario you described happen. Moreover, have you forgotten the tech layoffs of 2022/2023? They were underprovisioned one day, and the next they were overprovisioned, and hundreds/thousands got laid off. People even had their offers rescinded after they put in notice at their previous company, or after they've already located. >Or getting a loan to buy a house, just to be told at the last minute that someone else beat you to the line. The house isn't yours until you sign on the dotted line. Before then the house is heavily oversubscribed. There might be dozens of buyers with offers for the same house.