You've accepted a job and signed a contract, a better job opportunity appears

[peanutbutter]

Applied for the second job before I interviewed at the first, but they only got back after I had accepted the other role. Kept with the interview process out of curiosity more than anything else.

How bad of a move would it be to bail on the first job to take the second? is this a thing people do all the time?

[Sherringford Hovis]

This question gets asked so often all over the internet it's as if the AI refuses to learn.

Any and every employer's gonna be a cunt to you, so why worry how you treat them?

[Cuellar]

Just take the better job. You're not going to be working with the first lot so who cares what they think of you.

Also spit at them ahd post dogshit thetihhjt their box

[Gregory Torso]

You stick with the job you signed on for, out of loyalty and because it's the right thing to do, even if you think about the job you really want while you're doing the job you agreed to do. Its the right thing to do. And you get promoted, you get good at that job, even if it's blatantly obvious that you never should have taken the fucking job and meanwhile the job you really want you see her around and she still s looks good and she catches your eye on the way to the toilets but you don;t do shit becayse youre a good man  A GOOD MAN and good men STICK with the things they PROMISED THAT THEY WOULD

[Pseudopath]

If you've signed an employment contract, you might want to check if there are any legal repercussions in changing your mind (although most employers aren't going to be arsed to kick up a fuss). Sometimes they give you a cooling-off period in which you can quit the role without consequences, but sometimes they expect you to give a particular period of notice.

[Twed]

> GO EAST

[Consignia]

How bad of a move would it be to bail on the first job to take the second? is this a thing people do all the time?

I've done it once. Felt as guilty the hell about it, but realistically it happens all the time. Just do what's best for yourself.

EDIT: He was my VerbWhore consultation. https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,26212.msg1374613.html

[Gregory Torso]

AND Your th CEO now the head of the company but it feels so nothing and EMPTY inside Emma, like a dream in the night who can say where we're going more than this OH NO THERE'S NOTHING MORE THAN THIS

[Gregory Torso]

but everyone say ooh Gregg you're so good at the job you can't leave think of your employees they need you to take them swimming, take them to the park, they can't grow up with a boss, forget the other job YOURE TOO OLD  just cling on unitl death

[peanutbutter]

If you've signed an employment contract, you might want to check if there are any legal repercussions in changing your mind (although most employers aren't going to be arsed to kick up a fuss). Sometimes they give you a cooling-off period in which you can quit the role without consequences, but sometimes they expect you to give a particular period of notice.

Contract has a probationary period in which either party can end things with a week's notice, I would imagine that would apply for the pre-employment period as well. If not, I guess I could head in and give a week's notice on day 1, which sounds like the most George Costanza thing I'd get to do in my life.

[Pseudopath]

Contract has a probationary period in which either party can end things with a week's notice, I would imagine that would apply for the pre-employment period as well. If not, I guess I could head in and give a week's notice on day 1, which sounds like the most George Costanza thing I'd get to do in my life.

If they haven't specifically said anything about the pre-employment period, I reckon you're good to go. No employer is going to expect you to work a week out of sheer bloody-mindedness.

[Puce Moment]

You are selling your labour. You have just decided on a different customer because they are better.

Think of work like ebay.

[Danger Man]

> GO EAST

GO NORTH


Can't we agree on anything?

[Twed]

Perfect strangers in perfect worlds apart

[chveik]

take the two jobs.

[Glebe]

[tag]Mr. Benn reboot "not aimed at kids."[/tag]

Seriously though, best of luck mate whatever you choose.

[DrGreggles]

Applied for the second job before I interviewed at the first, but they only got back after I had accepted the other role. Kept with the interview process out of curiosity more than anything else.

How bad of a move would it be to bail on the first job to take the second? is this a thing people do all the time?

Use "personal reasons" as the excuse for bailing on the first job.
It's a vague enough term to technically be true, but so open to possibility that they will not press you on it any further.

[bgmnts]

Tell them you contracted cholera.

[Mister Six]

Use "personal reasons" as the excuse for bailing on the first job.
It's a vague enough term to technically be true, but so open to possibility that they will not press you on it any further.

This. Your new employers would fuck you off if it became financially useful to them. Don't give them loyalty that won't be reciprocated.

[popcorn]

If you want the other job, quit the current one and take it.

If the current job is a proper company with an HR department and everything (and not for example a two-bit operation run by a man in a shed), it won't be taken personally. You can even be up front with them and say "Unfortunately I've just had this offer and it makes more sense for me to do this for X Y Z reason", why not? It happens all the time.

You can also use it as negotiation leverage, if you fancy it. For example, if the new job is offering you a better salary, you can show your current employer and say "Sorry, can you beat this?" It's normal.

[Paul Calf]

Play them off against each other for a few months then do a mercurial shimmy and take a third, even better job.

Last year I interviewed someone who did exactly that. Pain in the arse, but you can't exactly blame them.

[Icehaven]

take the two jobs.

This isn't actually a bad idea. There was a bloke who signed up for training for a job but then didn't turn up on his first day as he'd gone to work elsewhere, but due to some administrative failure it took the first employer something like 6 months to notice he'd never actually turned up for work, so they'd been paying him all that time. Some approximation of that that ends with you leaving one before they notice and you'll be £££ in.

This was it;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-42806214

[The Lurker]

The way I see it is: if you were to die tomorrow, your employers would replace you within two weeks. You don't owe them anything. Just take the higher paid job and try not to die tomorrow.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Yea ditch these looser cunts with their shit inferior jobs, get out if there fast, before some of the bare MEDIOCRITY gets on your clothes and sinks into your heart, and you'll be trapped, a sub par shit man from craptown

[BlodwynPig]

Use "personal reasons" as the excuse for bailing on the first job.
It's a vague enough term to technically be true, but so open to possibility that they will not press you on it any further.

I just did this...without the second job part.

[thenoise]

Quit both jobs, they both sound shit.

[Bazooka]

I have a sore throat sorry.

[Captain Z]

Take the job with Donald, Boris, we can manage here without you.

[Flatulent Fox]

Tell them the truth and walk away.Also jump and click your heels while you do for added effect.

[Gurke and Hare]

This isn't actually a bad idea. There was a bloke who signed up for training for a job but then didn't turn up on his first day as he'd gone to work elsewhere, but due to some administrative failure it took the first employer something like 6 months to notice he'd never actually turned up for work, so they'd been paying him all that time. Some approximation of that that ends with you leaving one before they notice and you'll be £££ in.

This was it;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-42806214

"I would like to know how this has happened because as a taxpayer myself I don't want to know that my money has been wasted."

"That said, I'll be keeping the ten grand."