Anonymous wrote:DD is an incoming senior. She accepted an internship offer at a small company in a field she is not very interested in a couple of weeks ago out of fear of not having anything else. As pure feast or famine fashion has it, she has received three internship offers since then after months of silence and ghosting. She is pretty confident she will get the internship she had an interview for last Thursday. It is for a bigger company and seems more flexible with hours. Most importantly, felt her conversation with the hiring manager was like a mother daughter or friend talk, not a nervous, boss kind of interview that she has experienced with many other hiring managers over the past few months. She is expecting to hear back early this week about the decision for her first choice. If she gets this opportunity, will it look bad to renege on the offer she already accepted. She already has her background check cleared for the company and is just waiting to start the onboarding process this week with HR. Is this foolish and will the company be very mad?

Anonymous wrote:That happened to me way back in 2002. Looking back, the internship I accepted first and kept because my parents urged me to "do the right thing" was a nightmare. I actually left it a month early and had an abusive boss. The internship I had received the offer for later would have been a life-changing one. I still encounter the work of the organization all these years later- it was in its infancy at the time- and wish I could have been part of it.

The lesson I've learned from 20 years of work is that loyalty in the corporate world is not rewarded or remembered.

Anonymous wrote:Only issue if kid got first internship through handshake or college career center. Companies do notify both if a candidate drops like this. You would not want to be on the bad side of the career center if they plan to use them for a real job after graduation.

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Anonymous wrote:DD is an incoming senior. She accepted an internship offer at a small company in a field she is not very interested in a couple of weeks ago out of fear of not having anything else. As pure feast or famine fashion has it, she has received three internship offers since then after months of silence and ghosting. She is pretty confident she will get the internship she had an interview for last Thursday. It is for a bigger company and seems more flexible with hours. Most importantly, felt her conversation with the hiring manager was like a mother daughter or friend talk, not a nervous, boss kind of interview that she has experienced with many other hiring managers over the past few months. She is expecting to hear back early this week about the decision for her first choice. If she gets this opportunity, will it look bad to renege on the offer she already accepted. She already has her background check cleared for the company and is just waiting to start the onboarding process this week with HR. Is this foolish and will the company be very mad?

Go for it. Come up with a good reason.. Grandma sick, have to stay close, etc. Do not disclose where she is going. Just don't update Linkedin as to where she is going for a while.. just in case that company knows someone there and may sabotage things.

Companies won't think for a minute if they have to rescind offers (and they have done so a lot this season) and they don't spend time thinking if the candidate will be 'mad', so don't feel guilty.

Could the other company she rescinds from legally be allowed to sabotage her? The other offer is for a company in a completely different field. Example its not like Deloitte over PwC

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Anonymous wrote:DD is an incoming senior. She accepted an internship offer at a small company in a field she is not very interested in a couple of weeks ago out of fear of not having anything else. As pure feast or famine fashion has it, she has received three internship offers since then after months of silence and ghosting. She is pretty confident she will get the internship she had an interview for last Thursday. It is for a bigger company and seems more flexible with hours. Most importantly, felt her conversation with the hiring manager was like a mother daughter or friend talk, not a nervous, boss kind of interview that she has experienced with many other hiring managers over the past few months. She is expecting to hear back early this week about the decision for her first choice. If she gets this opportunity, will it look bad to renege on the offer she already accepted. She already has her background check cleared for the company and is just waiting to start the onboarding process this week with HR. Is this foolish and will the company be very mad?

Go for it. Come up with a good reason.. Grandma sick, have to stay close, etc. Do not disclose where she is going. Just don't update Linkedin as to where she is going for a while.. just in case that company knows someone there and may sabotage things.

Companies won't think for a minute if they have to rescind offers (and they have done so a lot this season) and they don't spend time thinking if the candidate will be 'mad', so don't feel guilty.

Anonymous wrote:DD is an incoming senior. She accepted an internship offer at a small company in a field she is not very interested in a couple of weeks ago out of fear of not having anything else. As pure feast or famine fashion has it, she has received three internship offers since then after months of silence and ghosting. She is pretty confident she will get the internship she had an interview for last Thursday. It is for a bigger company and seems more flexible with hours. Most importantly, felt her conversation with the hiring manager was like a mother daughter or friend talk, not a nervous, boss kind of interview that she has experienced with many other hiring managers over the past few months. She is expecting to hear back early this week about the decision for her first choice. If she gets this opportunity, will it look bad to renege on the offer she already accepted. She already has her background check cleared for the company and is just waiting to start the onboarding process this week with HR. Is this foolish and will the company be very mad?

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I appreciate the responses so far. Since she signed the offer on ADP, could there be any legal consequences or would it should up in a future background check that she backed out of an offer?

She’s already on the payroll?

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I appreciate the responses so far. Since she signed the offer on ADP, could there be any legal consequences or would it should up in a future background check that she backed out of an offer?