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Advice badly needed
Dec. 18th, 2003 02:04 pmHere's the sitch:
Current contract about to expire. Have been interviewing inside and outside of my current company. Have spent the last two days giving four hours of interviews at an outside company who has been very encouraging and friendly, and basically talking like it's all a done deal...
...except that they said yesterday, "We'll call today or tomorrow." I have not heard. And I do not have a solid offer of anything.
Today I get a solid job offer for a different contract within my company. I tried to equivocate, but the woman talking to me wanted to hear only "yes" or "no" immediately. Without a solid job offer from the outside company, I said "Yes, provisionally." She obviously only heard the "yes" part. If I'm going to turn her down, I need to do so soon. It's already going to be too late in her mind anyway.
The question - is it ballsy or suicidal to call the other company and say "Hey, are you going to make me an offer? Because I have an offer on the table and I have to give them an answer soon." And if I can call them, when? (I've been IMing people and gotten two answers - basically one "don't call until late tomorrow if you must call at all" and one "call 'em right away.")
Outside company was very encouraging - but it wouldn't be the first time I thought I had a job in the bag only to have the company pick someone else and promptly forget I exist. (In one particularly rude case, when I finally called for closure they never even returned my call. At least others have had the spine to say to my face, "we picked someone else.")
And inside job is not one I particularly want at all for a variety of reasons - but it beats the snot out of defaulting on the mortgage.
My current plan is to go home and check my home messages, and then if there is no message there, to call in the morning.
Thoughts?
Current contract about to expire. Have been interviewing inside and outside of my current company. Have spent the last two days giving four hours of interviews at an outside company who has been very encouraging and friendly, and basically talking like it's all a done deal...
...except that they said yesterday, "We'll call today or tomorrow." I have not heard. And I do not have a solid offer of anything.
Today I get a solid job offer for a different contract within my company. I tried to equivocate, but the woman talking to me wanted to hear only "yes" or "no" immediately. Without a solid job offer from the outside company, I said "Yes, provisionally." She obviously only heard the "yes" part. If I'm going to turn her down, I need to do so soon. It's already going to be too late in her mind anyway.
The question - is it ballsy or suicidal to call the other company and say "Hey, are you going to make me an offer? Because I have an offer on the table and I have to give them an answer soon." And if I can call them, when? (I've been IMing people and gotten two answers - basically one "don't call until late tomorrow if you must call at all" and one "call 'em right away.")
Outside company was very encouraging - but it wouldn't be the first time I thought I had a job in the bag only to have the company pick someone else and promptly forget I exist. (In one particularly rude case, when I finally called for closure they never even returned my call. At least others have had the spine to say to my face, "we picked someone else.")
And inside job is not one I particularly want at all for a variety of reasons - but it beats the snot out of defaulting on the mortgage.
My current plan is to go home and check my home messages, and then if there is no message there, to call in the morning.
Thoughts?
