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Re:Amazon rescinding the offer while I am on the notice period by tosc on Sunday December 25, 2022 @11:55AM (#34128729)
Man that is so horrible. Not all places are like that. Unfortunately it tends to be smaller places that are more trustworthy. I suggest that at very least you may need a good immigration attorney.
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Re:Amazon rescinding the offer while I am on the notice period by hcks on Sunday December 25, 2022 @12:26PM (#34129045)
But all places are like that in fact. The best you can hope for are that they respect the law.

If you didn’t experience it yourself it’s solely due to a mix of luck, never being at places that struggled and being hard to replace, that’s it.

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Re:Amazon rescinding the offer while I am on the notice period by NeverFade on Sunday December 25, 2022 @12:35PM (#34129166)
> The best you can hope for are that they respect the law

Offer letters never provided much of a legal protection. We just treated them as if they did.

Amazon et al wouldn't rescind them by their thousands this year if that created a strong legal case against them.

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Re:Amazon rescinding the offer while I am on the notice period by NeverFade on Sunday December 25, 2022 @12:12PM (#34128882)
"Smaller places are more trustworthy" is not true at all. They have their own set of issues.
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Re:Amazon rescinding the offer while I am on the notice period by passwordoops on Sunday December 25, 2022 @12:19PM (#34128965)
100%.

Family companies are the worst in my first- and second-hand experience. Blood runs thicker than water, and outsiders are often reminded of that fact come promotion/major decision time

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Re:Amazon rescinding the offer while I am on the notice period by pieix on Sunday December 25, 2022 @12:20PM (#34128970)
I'd phrase it this way: at a smaller company, you are much more likely to be treated as a human, by a human, versus being treated as a unit by a system at a bigger company.
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