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In February earlier this year I interviewed and was subsequently offered a position at a well known airline. However, given the stringent regulations which are required nowadays when working for an airline, my comprehensive two year background check took until around the beginning of August - over five months in total. As I have in the past worked on short term contracts in the Film/TV industry I was unable to take any work available as was worried as I might receive a start date for April, May or June (as was initially advertised when applying).
So having had a stressful five months almost completely out of work I finally received an offer of a start date for the 19th of October, over two months away, which was conditional on a reply within 24 hours. I immediately rang up the recruitment team and requested an earlier start date as not only was this seven months after applying for the job, but given that I wouldn't be allowed to take holiday for 5 weeks after starting and had two very important events/trips planned I felt it would be just to be given an earlier start date (I knew people were starting all year round). I was told to respond to the offer stating my request and reasons why. I had no response so I rang up the following day, apparently they hadn't received the email. The person I spoke to agreed to look into changing my date for me.
It took a week for them to get back to me and tell me no it would not be possible, during which time I had received another offer with the same date, again stating I had 24 hours. Later that day I received an email reminding me that I had yet to respond to my offer of a 19th October start date and had until 3pm on the 8th August to do so. I replied immediately, accepting the date. The next day, the 8th, I remembered that email I had sent which hadn't been received by the company so I replied again at 11:33 AM to both of the eoffers I had received accepting the date.
On the 13th August I received an email saying "Thank you for advising us of your withdrawal from the position..."
Again I called up the recruitment team and spoke to the manager of one of the departments who told me that they had not received any mails from me accepting the offer, so he asked me to forward him the emails I had sent, which I did and he has today replied saying that the emails clearly show I did not reply within the necessary time frame and thus my offer remains withdrawn.
I realise in hindsight I should have sucked it up and accepted the offer immediately, however:
A) If initially the condition of the eoffer was a response in 24 hours, did that condition not change to 3pm on August 8th?
B) Am I liable for missing the 24 hour deadline when I was waiting for the recruitment team (who did not advise me to accept the offer anyway) to tell me that there were no earlier dates available?
Apologies if this has been too long winded!
In February earlier this year I interviewed and was subsequently offered a position at a well known airline. However, given the stringent regulations which are required nowadays when working for an airline, my comprehensive two year background check took until around the beginning of August - over five months in total. As I have in the past worked on short term contracts in the Film/TV industry I was unable to take any work available as was worried as I might receive a start date for April, May or June (as was initially advertised when applying).
So having had a stressful five months almost completely out of work I finally received an offer of a start date for the 19th of October, over two months away, which was conditional on a reply within 24 hours. I immediately rang up the recruitment team and requested an earlier start date as not only was this seven months after applying for the job, but given that I wouldn't be allowed to take holiday for 5 weeks after starting and had two very important events/trips planned I felt it would be just to be given an earlier start date (I knew people were starting all year round). I was told to respond to the offer stating my request and reasons why. I had no response so I rang up the following day, apparently they hadn't received the email. The person I spoke to agreed to look into changing my date for me.
It took a week for them to get back to me and tell me no it would not be possible, during which time I had received another offer with the same date, again stating I had 24 hours. Later that day I received an email reminding me that I had yet to respond to my offer of a 19th October start date and had until 3pm on the 8th August to do so. I replied immediately, accepting the date. The next day, the 8th, I remembered that email I had sent which hadn't been received by the company so I replied again at 11:33 AM to both of the eoffers I had received accepting the date.
On the 13th August I received an email saying "Thank you for advising us of your withdrawal from the position..."
Again I called up the recruitment team and spoke to the manager of one of the departments who told me that they had not received any mails from me accepting the offer, so he asked me to forward him the emails I had sent, which I did and he has today replied saying that the emails clearly show I did not reply within the necessary time frame and thus my offer remains withdrawn.
I realise in hindsight I should have sucked it up and accepted the offer immediately, however:
A) If initially the condition of the eoffer was a response in 24 hours, did that condition not change to 3pm on August 8th?
B) Am I liable for missing the 24 hour deadline when I was waiting for the recruitment team (who did not advise me to accept the offer anyway) to tell me that there were no earlier dates available?
Apologies if this has been too long winded!
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