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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS got three internship offers in December '22 and January '23, accepted one offer and declined the other two.  Today, the company that he accepted the offer informed him that due to budget constraints, it has to rescind the offer.  The same thing also happened to one of my nephews that a different company that offered him the internship also rescinded the offer. It is now almost March so it is almost possible to find an internship.  Anyone in the same boat as DS?[/quote]

The lesson is he should have accepted all. Both my kids accepted two summer jobs. One will most likely get a pulled offer. That is the new world we live in [/quote]

Terrible advice. Don’t teach your kid to accept
More than one offer on the chance that one of them will fall though. Because he’s knowingly leaving the company with an issue if it doesn’t fall though and he ends up picking the one he wants to stay with. [/quote]

Hey, it is a dog-eat-dog world.  When companies pay a price with on-campus recruiting...or better yet, stick to their internship commitment, then kids can be upstanding about job offers.  I mean, internship programs are for 3 months...it is a minor expense for these companies in the scheme of things.  If anything, they can make it 2 months instead of 3 which still gives the kid valuable experience.

But, until the day that companies act with integrity, they literally set the example for the kids...that their offer didn't mean anything and you have to look out for #1.  Karma is a b***h, so it might come back to bite the kid in the ass.  However, this idea that you owe a company anything...absolutely no.[/quote]

You’d better hope 1 offer gets pulled.  Those top crier internships don’t always lead to FT offers. And now you and DC have burned your bridges with the 2nd choice. [/quote]

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