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    Advice needed!

    OK, I've got a verbal offer of a contract down south - (subject to checks) starting on Monday. A
    I've just been asked for an interview for another role rather closer to home, less money, but in a city centre, where i have friends with a spare room and at a push I could come home a couple of nights a week. B
    I would prefer contract B
    They cant interview me til next week.

    How do I put off contract A to allow me to interview for contract B?
    Should I just take contract A and put up with it?
    Should I turn down A and hope I get B?

    Contract A are still looking for more people and Contract B doesn't want to interview anyone else, so far.

    Anyone else been in this situation and how badly can I stuff it up!!
    I'm sorry, but I'll make no apologies for this

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    Originally posted by Pogle View Post
    OK, I've got a verbal offer of a contract down south - (subject to checks) starting on Monday. A
    I've just been asked for an interview for another role rather closer to home, less money, but in a city centre, where i have friends with a spare room and at a push I could come home a couple of nights a week. B
    I would prefer contract B
    They cant interview me til next week.

    How do I put off contract A to allow me to interview for contract B?
    Should I just take contract A and put up with it?
    Should I turn down A and hope I get B?

    Contract A are still looking for more people and Contract B doesn't want to interview anyone else, so far.

    Anyone else been in this situation and how badly can I stuff it up!!

    The oral offer down south sounds promising to me




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      #3
      A bird in the hand can be cooked and eaten.
      Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
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        #4
        Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
        The oral offer down south sounds promising to me




        I'm sorry, but I'll make no apologies for this

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          #5
          You don't know how long gig B is going to take to 1)interview you and 2) then to interview everyone else and 3)then actually get back to you.

          It could drag on for ages and you could be left without anything......

          Not worth the risk really. IMHO
          "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." - Orson Welles

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            #6
            Originally posted by Pogle View Post


            it was a genuine opinion as well as a joke. Its the right thing to do, a verbal agreement should bind you, you would expect the same treatment




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              #7
              Originally posted by Pogle View Post
              I wouldn't do that to EO if i were you
              "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." - Orson Welles

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                #8
                Originally posted by threaded View Post
                A bird in the hand can be cooked and eaten.
                Aye
                How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by norrahe View Post
                  I wouldn't do that to EO if i were you


                  any hole is a goal


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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Pogle View Post
                    Anyone else been in this situation
                    Me, almost every time.
                    Originally posted by Pogle View Post
                    and how badly can I stuff it up!!
                    Comprehensively, if you work at it.

                    I always take the bird in the hand.


                    I suppose it would be irrelevant in practice to speak of Right Of Substitution? If my plumber got 2 jobs at once, he'd send a subcontractor round to one of them without asking first.
                    Step outside posh boy

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