Job Decision - Help!

Anon87

Hi

Wondering if people could give me their thoughts on this situation please....

In Jan, you get offered a job with employer A and set a start date with them. Unfortunately, through no fault of your own, you then can't start with that particular employer for 3 months. You expect employer A to withdraw the offer as a result but instead they agree to wait.

In the meantime, you need a job so you accept an offer from employer B on a temporary ongoing basis. When it comes to then hand your notice in at employer B, they surprise you by saying that they don't want you to leave and offer you a permanent position along with a pay rise effective immediately.

Despite feeling settled at employer B now, with the offer a higher salary and better prospects, you feel obligated to leave anyway to start with employer A as they've waited all that time.

What would you do?

tea_lover

Which job do you want? If you want to stay at B, stay there. A will get over it.

Scorpio33

If employer B has better pay and better prospects and your are settled there, you want to stay with employer B I assume?

In that case, stay with employer B and inform employer A of your decision.

Legally employer A could make you start, for you then to leave by the end of your first week (assuming a weeks notice in probation, you having sent in your notice prior to starting), but practically, they will just accept your decision and won't take any further action.

The only thing to note is that you probably won't be able to go back to employer A for a job within the next few years, as they will be concerned that the same thing could happen again. But if you are happy at employer B, that shouldn't be a concern.

Scorpio33

By the way, waiting 3 months was employer A's decision and is not that long in terms of recruitment. They will either go to their second choice candidate or will interview again. Either way, they will be fine.

Anon87

I think it's because I had to let them down in Jan that makes me feel so bad about this, which wasn't my fault, it was a clause in my leaving conditions of my previous place that didn't allow me to work for this particular employer until a length of time had passed as the two are some what connected. If that hadn't happened, I wouldn't feel as bad.

Stylehutz

Job B 100%. Don't you dare feel any guilt?;)

Malthusian

As written this is a no brainer. Job B (higher salary, better prospects). Job A wouldn't feel any guilt if they employed you, then made you redundant after three months. They took a risk by waiting three months instead of offering it to someone else and it hasn't paid off, c'est la vie.

They can't be that desperate for someone to take the job or they wouldn't have held it open for three months (and run the risk of exactly this happening), and they'll soon find somebody else.