Brilliant idea. Now to any job offer I shall be responding: "Wait 3 weeks" and observe red flags and increases in salary.
Originally posted by M.C. Horn:
If it was a perm position with a good company, you should wonder a bit.
Do you mean: it is OK if it is not perm with a good company, but if it is you should wonder? To wonder about what?
Originally posted by John Coxey:
- Once you get the offer letter (in writing),
.....
Just make sure you got the offer in writing. Nothing matters until you get the offer in writing.
This is not correct: there are
- verbal agreements, and/or
- working relations by fact, like marriage (either you do it or you don't).
Until recent changes in Legislature, in Portugal, after 3 months of salary without contract you were considered to be in permanent relationship/position. That's simple: either contract or perm position.
There is another reason why I do not care: Any term contradicting the legislature is automatically invalid. Why should I care?
I have never seen an offer in my life. All the other cases I was called and told to start working tomorrow. At last employment I have seen a contract after 6 months of working and as it happened just because they wanted to lay me off (and I thought they want to regularize the relations because by the law I am in perm position after 3 months without contract, as I considered me to be)
[ January 15, 2003: Message edited by: yidanneuG ninaV ]