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.

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.

Love how there is clearly a last line cropped out.

:: eye twitches::

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

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.

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

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 !

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

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.

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