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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It looks bad.  It looks really really bad.  They went through a long hiring process and at this point have already let the other good candidates know they were not selected, so they can’t just move to a second choice.  (At least not without that being extremely awkward.). They’ll be pissed and you will have burned bridges.

That being said, you do you.  Make the choice that works best for you.  But know that others will be very upset.[/quote]

Original poster here. I get they’d be unhappy but what I’m trying to figure out is whether *I* am doing something wrong. I applied to a bunch of announcements on usajobs. Interviewed at a few and accepted the first offer I got. Then I got another better offer. It’s not like they conditioned the offer on me withdrawing myself for consideration elsewhere.

So of course I understand why they would be upset at having to go through the whole process again and being short a person in the meantime. I’d be upset if they called me tomorrow and told me based on budgetary constraints they had to rescind my offer. But I wouldn’t be personally mad at the hiring authority. It’s the nature of the process. Likewise I don’t see how they could be upset *with me* for accepting an objectively better offer from a position I applied to before accepting my current position. [/quote]

They will be upset with you.  You will have made their life extremely difficult and they will view you as flaky and unreliable and tell stories about how you lack commitment and didn’t think things through and will generally be a hire that future employers should not make. And they will not be entirely wrong.

But you are focusing on the wrong thing.  You want to know what they will think and be able to tell yourself that what they think is incorrect/illogical. Stop doing that.

Accept that people will be mad at you and say negative things about you.  And then STILL make the best decision for you.[/quote]

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