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>Re: job in Florida
>Posted by: “Nadine Turner”
>Tue Dec 4, 2007 9:24 pm (PST)
>HOW you’ve successfully negotiated an employment contract. I’m not focused on fair pay
I haven’t gotten a contract on the inbound side, but I have gotten contracts on being throw out the door.
Go figure?
>HOW YOU GOT the contract
If a contract is a meeting of the minds as evidenced in writing …
… then I’d assert that you can write a letter indicating that you are accepting their offer and outlining what you understand the terms to be.
(My Judge Judy Law Degree, and experience, tells me that it might be good enough to use in exit negotiations. YMMV)
Should they respond in writing correcting your obvious mistakes, (Notice: I didn’t say include something wrong deliberately, but mistakes do happen. Not typos; some significant item like three weeks vacation and seven paid holidays — when the deal was for 6.) Well, then I’d feel comfortable in front of Judge Judy saying here it is “Your Honor”.
:-)
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Clearly, if something is important to you, then you have to ask yourself “just how important”?
If I was reloing for a job when I had a job already, then I’d get ten of my most pessimistic friends to develop a list of EVERY single thing that could go wrong! And, I’d want to either conscientiously decide to accept the risk, or I’d want a contract. If I was out of work, then the risk calculation would be different.
I know for sure that I would not trust ANY big biz, any more than I trust any politician. Which is never!
Once you’ve gotten an offer letter and responded. Those are the terms. How “cold and hungry” you are will determine if you accept it? If they want you more than you want them, then you can hold out for more. BUT, get it in writing.
When I took a “dicey job” without one, I got slammed. So, now I ask. Implicit in the asking is you’re saying “i don’t trust you”. If you can do it without being insulting, you might even get it. If they won’t give it to you, you have to ask yourself “why won’t they give it to me”. Then you get the answer, “because i can not trust them!”.
Argh!
fjohn
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YMMV
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