Work Reform

Ill join a union if everyone else does.

You're more likely to have his products used against you, by your government and the corporations that rule you.

No, this is on you guys for not having laws or unions. If a company pulls this shit off here they get to may multiple months of paychecks in damages because they had signed the contract. And even still they cant just lay somebody off like that.

Welcome to modern society :')

I mean, we live in a hellscape. Even if they had given him a start date, they can still fire him at any point for no reason. Labor has almost no protections (in the US, at least). It would be only slightly less bad to accept the new job, take it, quit the old job, and then get fired.

I'd rather we have like basic income, free health care, and public housing, so people don't need to worry about dying because some capitalist is willing to hire them.

Honestly I've lined most of my jobs up where theres slight over lap and all of I've been able to get out of my last few days early and atleast be covered for 2-4 weeks because ill still be get my paycheck from my previous job as im starting the new one.

Ive been doing this for 9 years and been at 4 different companies.

Seems wild to me to just quit a few weeks about and leave the gap but im also a financially the traumatized millennial.

And even if you do start the new job, most jobs have a probationary period around ninety days where they can just let you go for no reason at all.

Seems an argument for "over employment", or at least taking a leave from current job to work second.

I jumped through hoops like that once. Six or seven interviews with everyone from HR to one of the company founders, had to submit a freaking essay, only to be low-balled by the salary at the end; I ended up declining the offer. Biggest waste of time.

I did three interviews once with a company. Even shadowed someone. Never doing that again. It's a complete waste of time.

Maybe but are you really going to hire a lawyer to sue when you don’t have a job to pay the rent?

I know someone who went through a similar situation. The company said they were “just getting the paperwork ready” for like 4 weeks, meanwhile my friend turned down another job offer. Then suddenly the company that had been stringing them along said “sorry”.

Bro's been brainwashed by hustle & grind culture. He's not ready to accept he's a victim.

In such a case he should sue the recruiting company

IANAL, but it certainly seems like he may have a case for promissory estoppel.

Reads more like LinkedinLunatics

Lol here in the US there are no such protections. You have to fend for yourself.

Can’t say for certain because I’ve never used it, but I’ve heard of a concept called promissory estoppel that might apply in situations like this.

What employment contract? Those are rare in the US.

At least we know it was a real post and not AI

Shenanigans.

Bilingual idiosyncrasies are not a factor in developer performance.

Yup.

I had to get it out of my last role but I liked a lot of the people I worked with. So I gave a 60-day resignation. Which would give them time to bring in a new person to fill the role. And give me time to hand over different platforms and processes. And teach him how to do the job.

24 hours later I was laid off on the spot and my accounts all shut down.

Now a month later they have hired a new guy and he's messaging me on LinkedIn begging for help.

I feel sorry for him. But fuck that...

If you're in Germany, don't do this.

(Because legally binding contracts are legally binding, you would violate both and probably get fucked over income taxes, dunno. On the other hand, companies are bound to contracts as well and you're protected from bullshit like that)