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Get a signed contract or get screwed!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I met a gentleman recently who moved from Chicago, Illinois to take a 12-month temp to perm contract position with a telecommunications company which recently went through a merger and a name change.
In order to protect the innocent, we will just refer to our friend as Mo.
Mo is married and has two kids and had planned to make monthly trips home in hopes that he would have an opportunity to move his family after a year.
After moving to Alpharetta, Mo was told the company needed to run a background check, which took 5 days and should have been done before he left Chicago.
When he reported to work, the hiring manager who had made the commitment to hire Mo had been reassigned and the new manager decided after one week on the job that he did not want Mo.
Even though this is a right to work state, Mo still should have had some type of contract before he left Chicago. Mo just got screwed!
Has this ever happened to you?
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