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HipChick

(25,485 posts)
Fri Jun 15, 2012, 10:17 PM Jun 2012

Finally sitting on job offers..

3 to be exact...

1 interview was brutal - panel style - lasted for hours...I pretended that I was on a date they loved me...pro's - really nice people, great corporate loc, but I would be looking at re-location to Seattle - just slightly under what I wanted

Next Interview - I had worked for CIO a few years, he just wanted me on board, and how soon I could start - Interview was just a formality - they are offering the most $$, 4 weeks holiday

Last Interview - Would involve lots of travel, highly sought after international company to work for but is the lowest offer, but has highest bonus

Going to spend the weekend, visualizing how I'm going to tell my boss he can go now 'eff himself...

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Finally sitting on job offers.. (Original Post) HipChick Jun 2012 OP
Tell us how you plan to tell him! elleng Jun 2012 #1
I will probabely be escorted out of the office almost immeadiately HipChick Jun 2012 #6
Or try this instead...... Dyedinthewoolliberal Jun 2012 #7
Accept the offer formally before you tell off the boss! MADem Jun 2012 #2
I previously worked with him at another company... HipChick Jun 2012 #5
In these times, safe is good! MADem Jun 2012 #10
Number two sounds the most attractive to me if I were to make the choice. RebelOne Jun 2012 #9
Hurray! Iris Jun 2012 #3
Other than telling your boss to fuck off lunatica Jun 2012 #4
Seattle's nice, long as you don't need sun. nolabear Jun 2012 #8
I burned a bridge once. It was wonderful. kcass1954 Jun 2012 #11

HipChick

(25,485 posts)
6. I will probabely be escorted out of the office almost immeadiately
Sat Jun 16, 2012, 10:32 AM
Jun 2012

so I need to pick my time carefully..

Dyedinthewoolliberal

(15,596 posts)
7. Or try this instead......
Sat Jun 16, 2012, 10:46 AM
Jun 2012

be nice and professional , and when you leave for the last time, pull the fire alarm on your way out!

MADem

(135,425 posts)
2. Accept the offer formally before you tell off the boss!
Fri Jun 15, 2012, 10:43 PM
Jun 2012

I'd go for number two if you like the CIO...

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)
9. Number two sounds the most attractive to me if I were to make the choice.
Sat Jun 16, 2012, 01:35 PM
Jun 2012

But good luck in whichever choice you make.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
4. Other than telling your boss to fuck off
Fri Jun 15, 2012, 11:15 PM
Jun 2012

Which would make you the happiest? Then go with that one. No amount of salary can make up for misery suffered on a job. But lack of money isn't so bad when you love what you're doing.

nolabear

(42,001 posts)
8. Seattle's nice, long as you don't need sun.
Sat Jun 16, 2012, 11:15 AM
Jun 2012

Trust me. It really is vibrant, economically sound, if expensive, and hopeful. But if you need sun you're going to want to open a vein.

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