“Secret-secret, I’ve got a secret….My heart is human, my blood is boiling. My brain, IMB." – Styx.
No, I’m not Killroy. But I’m starting to relate.
Nearly every other day, I see a Facebook post from an acquaintance about themselves or their partner getting laid off, or unable to find a job after graduation. Two in my cohort can’t seem to get an interview. Another friend has been working for 5 five years at a big box retail store post-graduation. So, I feel guilty over some recent job hunt success.
I’m reluctant to share job hunt at all on Facebook. It’s a fine line of sharing nowadays. I certainly don’t want to make any one feel bad, or sound like I am rubbing it in…but isn’t FB for sharing the weekly news and good things that happen? I’m excited about an interview; I should be able to share with my friends and family en masse. However, I have one friend that shares about every job rejection, and I confess it’s a bit awkward. And that’s making me rethink sharing anything job related at all.
To you, my (mostly) silent anonymous readers, I will relish in telling my ‘secret’; Over the past five weeks, I’ve been offered four in-person interviews. And I turned two of them down.
One seemed like an unpleasant place to work and paid about half of what I am currently making as a grad research assistant at the university. Part of me felt like should fully explore EVERY opportunity. But, honestly, it’d probably just be a waste of my time. And theirs. The other offer just had incredibly poor timing (the week they were interviewing, I absolutely could not make it - I’d be recovering from a medical procedure that week and couldn’t drive and would look ‘a little worse for the wear’ and be goofy from pain meds.). But I am incredibility jazzed over the last one. Ring phone, ring!
*cue robot arms* Domo-Domo.
I cannot stress enough what I am about to write. What you are doing is completely unethical. You have accepted a position at an institution, and are continuing to interview for other positions. This field is very small. Yes, I mean VERY small. You don't know who reads this blog. There could be someone from the institution where you have accepted the position that reads this, and perhaps they will be able to put it together. You are never completely anonymous.
ReplyDeleteIf you would like to continue to interview, I cannot stress enough, that you need to STRONGLY consider calling that institution and resigning that position.
Thank you for your concern and response, however we seem to differ in opinion. I was not contractually bound to the job in anyway.
ReplyDeleteI feel at peace with my behavior and ethics: When I received the formal job offer from place #2 and accepted, I then called place #1 to tell them that I have received another offer that included insurance benefits. I told place #1 that if somehow insurance could be include in the 39 hour/wk job that they offered me, that I will gladly continue with them. The Executive Director that I spoke with didn't seem surprised and even mentioned they had lost several other good candidates because of this issue.