Asking for my fiance. She got a job offer from a decent engineering services/consulting firm (mechanical engineering major). She signed the offer letter and even had a drug test and background check. Now we have got an offer which works for us better personally. We are planning to decline the first one. Now surely they will be unhappy. But can they do anything legally? The second firm will also do a background check, will there be any issue there also? (Like a previous background check showing on record). Would be great to get your inputs as we have until Monday to decide. No difference between comp. But the second one works much much better personally.
Throw away consulting offer and do what is best for you both.
Yep our plan is to take the offer which works personally. But both these firms are sort of old school. Not like tech firms of Bay area like Google, FB, Uber etc. So not sure what the risks etc will be.
You shouldn’t if you high morale , I have done it as I felt it was alright.
Nothing illegal, but definitely bad form.
Being a part time recruiter previously at old school firms, this was seen as bad form. But nowadays more than ever I realize you have to protect your own interests. In your situation sounds like you are merely picking the best option given. Companies have costs Onboarding employees, but you do too if they take a job they don’t want. Plus it sounds like your fiancé is pre start date so this isn’t even a big deal IMO
In my younger days, I’d tend to agree that it was seen as a bad form. But after seeing many recruiter ghosting me, even the night before the onsite interviews, I feel fine nowadays ghosting a recruiter or even a company. At the end of the day, the company interest is their business, not you.
Try to be apologetic to the first company so they might just let it go. They can’t do anything legally because the employment is at will.
Just do it, you are not the first, nor the last. Employment is at will both sides
Employment at will- you are fine. Be honest- HR is human too and probably can understand or relate. Only risk is that it's a small world...but honestly this stuff happens from time to time. Not a huge deal.
So the industry that she is in is actually a very small and connected one. But we think that the company might understand because it's a personal reason. But let's see ..
No issues at all...done this several times
I've done this too. No one cares
can confirm, should be ok