Work Reform

As an environmental regulator in America I know first hand how company owners tend to respect nothing but their own wealth and standing. I write and enforce administrative orders and penalties to company presidents and CEOs. They'll throw the world under the bus before taking reaponsibility.

But during covid a lot of contracts and orders were digitally signed and not given wet signatures.

So a lot of American company owners are trying to pull back on everything covid. One of the angles is attempting to void all contracts not physically signed with a wet signature. Completely ignoring digital signing is a (new?) tactic being used.

Love how there is clearly a last line cropped out.

:: eye twitches::

7 months ago I started a 6 month remote contract for chime.com.

At around 5 months, I asked my manager if she was going to extend me. She said no. Cool, whatever. Life of a contractor.

The product and engineer team rallied against ending my contract and my manager caved and extended my contract for another 6 months.

So a week into my new contract, they asked me to come into the office in San Francisco.

This is a difficult ask from me because I had to find a person to watch my son and my dogs. Drove my son an hour away to my sisters and paid a dog sitter 80/day to watch my dogs.

I land in San Francisco and my boss text me saying she has something important to tell me. I get into the office and a few hours later she cancels my contract because they want to have the person in my role local and to come into the SF office 4 days a week. This new position is also only paying 135k vs my 165k.

If they signed the offer, is that not a contract? Do they not have a pretty clear breach of contract case here?

They could have waited longer. That would have been worse.

Never quit your job over an offer, I always run my time out at my old job.

Last job switch was last day on Friday, new day of first job on Monday.

In the modern environment I can't help but wonder, since I don't know who this guy is, is he a citizen of the United States. Because PayPal might be towing the Trump party line for all I know. It wouldn't surprise me one bit.

Shocking to hear as I am Used to have binding consequences for such action in my country - feel u !

this is why i simply refuse to work for anyone else. period.

i quit society in 2016 and have never looked back.

never ever assume you got the offer until both parties have signed a contract

That's why we need a democratic economy. Distribute the power over the means of production.

That's the whole point of having a contract. You don't quit your old job until you have a signed new contract for the new one. I understand that many Americans don't believe in this basic concept, but it's common in many countries around the world.