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This is sadly a lot more common than people realize. It's drilled in your head that as an employee you should never ever renege on a job offer or accept a better one too soon because you are "burning bridges" and that is very bad, but it never works the same the other way around. Budgets change all the time. Departments go through reorgs. Projects get cancelled. "Hey but we have an open job offer" is never going to b…
The same thing happened to me in late 2018. I was hired to write a compiler for deep learning (training) on Tesla's in-house hardware, under Peter Bannon. I resigned from the job I had at the time, and Tesla backed out of the contract shortly before my start date. Tesla is ruthless.
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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?
This is sadly a lot more common than people realize. It's drilled in your head that as an employee you should never ever renege on a job offer or accept a better one too soon because you are "burning bridges" and that is very bad, but it never works the same the other way around. Budgets change all the time. Departments go through reorgs. Projects get cancelled. "Hey but we have an open job offer" is never going to b…
I see your point, but then again maybe it does, if anyone reads about this episode and decides not to risk joining Tesla as a result. Especially if they do this too much and get a reputation for it.
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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?
https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/observatories/emcc/erm/legis...
Also I know from someone that worked in India that the employer would hold back some money which would be forfeited if they left without giving a notice period. Not sure how common that is.
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.
What is good to excellent advice: Have a SIGNED offer letter in hand that you have also accepted before giving notice. That is a MUST (does not matter how good interview etc went).
This is so tone deaf by Tesla though - it's what folks like to chat about so I don't get it. We've made things right in a few cases where for example a part time job ended up more part time than expected. Just pay out at end to true things up etc.
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It's sad that to address his issue he probably has to burn down any and all opportunity with Tesla.
Given his public posting, I suspect he is not too worried about future opportunities at Tesla.
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.
This is sadly a lot more common than people realize. It's drilled in your head that as an employee you should never ever renege on a job offer or accept a better one too soon because you are "burning bridges" and that is very bad, but it never works the same the other way around. Budgets change all the time. Departments go through reorgs. Projects get cancelled. "Hey but we have an open job offer" is never going to b…
I ended up working for them later anyway. No point holding a grudge.