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This is an interesting comment on the Linkedin page: In my experience, This is actually not that surprising, don’t find yourself cornered by such situations, always get offers more than one and then keep them on their edge until you have joined. Such is corporate life.
Doesn't mean it's even slightly acceptable.
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Also, emoployees can leave company any time. And they leave companies on short notices! Cuts both ways!
Are there actually countries where employees can't quit if they want to?
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Yeah, that doesn’t match my expectation at all. Does that commenter think that you should always have multiple job offers before giving notice to your current job?
Yes? Isn't the common advice that you should have multiple offers in hand before giving notice? Or do you give notice without an offer?
You want to have a offer before giving notice just so you know what's next, and obviously you shouldn't do this if you don't intend on accepting the only offer you have.
If you have no offers you can quit, but you have no guarantee of finding a job immediately and it also can hurt your leverage while negotiating.
If he were let go on first day of new job, would he be happy? It is an at will employment, got to just accept it and move on. Tesla doesn't care why you took up the job. May be you wanted to follow your passion or may be you wanted to feed your family. Musk doesn't care. That is the beauty of capitalism. Without everybody else worrying about why you took up a job, we have built an economic system that doesn't let any…
Tesla is allowed to screw him like this, but it is appropriate that he makes that fact known in a public forum and causes commensurate reputational damage to Tesla.
Budgets change all the time. Departments go through reorgs. Projects get cancelled. "Hey but we have an open job offer" is never going to be a concern for management when making these decisions, nor should it for you.
If he wanted to, he could probably sue Tesla for tortious interference of his previous job, since he gave notice at the previous job because of them. Also, it really sucks that Tesla didn't offer him severance given that he was effectively laid off. Hopefully he can at least get unemployment.
It's sad that to address his issue he probably has to burn down any and all opportunity with Tesla.
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> an economic system that doesn't let anyone starve I don't think this is accurate.
It's not. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_in_the_United_States
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