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wasn't the error corrected quickly though?
by therobot24 12y ago
wasn't the error corrected quickly though?
- pnathan 12y agoI am sure that someone got the email, yelled loudly, and then wrote their "I quit" email to their fine employer. Or perhaps turned down other graduate school offers...
- tedunangst 12y agoDon't burn your bridges until the chickens are hatched or something.
- llamataboot 12y agoYou can't reasonably expect to be rejected /after/ being accepted though. Resigning when you apply, chickens not hatched yet. Get a letter from the program you applied to informing you of your acceptance, that's a pretty hatched chicken.
- tedunangst 12y agoPerhaps I should have just said don't burn your bridges? It's not strictly necessary to quit in a way that can't be unquit immediately upon receipt of an acceptance letter.
- kbar13 12y agocan't reply to tedunangst but it doesn't matter how you do it, you can't "unquit" once your employer knows you've been applying elsewhere, no matter if it's for school or another job.
- hackinthebochs 12y agoI don't know why you think you can't in general. If you're on good terms and quit on good terms I would expect most places you could undo it once you explained the situation. I know for a fact that I could at my employer.
- tedunangst 12y agoKeyword being immediately. Waiting 24 hours from acceptance notification to quitting doesn't seem entirely unreasonable. One may not expect to be unaccepted, but a little prudence rarely hurts in the event of the unexpected. That said, it certainly is possible to unquit at many employers provided you didn't quit by taking off your pants and running out the door shouting "adios, motherfuckers."