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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  The same thing also happened to one of my nephews that a different company that offered him the internship also rescinded the offer.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]

+1 This is how we wind  up with unethical people in society. Parents like this right here.

(Instead of teaching integrity, keeping your commitments. It is actually sad to see it in real time.)[/quote]

I understand the rational and mild moral corruption involved with accepting two internships. But it has to be a strategic move as well. Your kid will be blackballed at that other company (even if they were to decline now, never mind late in the season). If it is a throw away company, so be it, but in similar circumstances, when two offers came in within two weeks for my DC, I told them to notify the other company asap (this was in November) so that they could still fill the slot. They may still be blackballed in the future who knows.[/quote]

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