Re: the whoppin' $3000-taxes for GSK rejects
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got my check today, $3000 - taxes-$1800, what a joke, everyone i tell this story to cannot believe they did this, just feel terrible for what they did to us 
got my check today, $3000 - taxes-$1800, what a joke, everyone i tell this story to cannot believe they did this, just feel terrible for what they did to us
Seriously. It may sound pathetic, but I think about it often. I just started another job...I was basically forced to take it because I had been unemployed for a month before I accepted this GSK position. At the time, I had two offers (I declined the other offer). Then before getting THE call, I declined 2 interviews for positions that would have been in the same pay range. The new job is paying 11,000 LESS than what I was offered and what I would have been offered if I had gone to the other interviews and got the position. I simply didn't have more time to look!
I was offered the GSK position over a month before the start date (making my unemployment period over 2 months)...I just couldn't wait any longer to start earning a REAL paycheck! It makes me sick every time I think about it. It was just SO wrong.
We should have been given, at LEAST, 10% of what our annual salary would have been. The majority of the people HAD jobs and had put in their resignation! I have heard people here and in conversation saying that it was stupid to resign before the new position started, but SERIOUSLY, we had offer letters and did drug screens!!! And, WHAT company does this?!
Everyone I have shared the story with have had the same response...they cannot believe it! Sometimes I get the feeling they think I'm lying because it's so far fetched!
What a mess, I feel for you..how do you explain that story in your next interview , gee I quit and got kinda of hired but not really, then let go without ever really working for this company called inVentiv, who had this contract with another company which then decided to back out of some stuff, but I got a check for $3K for my time, so that's why I'm interested in this new position with your company...
Yip, that's pretty much how I attempted to explain it in an interview I had just after we were "let go" (you know, without even starting). I'm pretty sure they thought I was an idiot. Didn't get THAT job! These people have ruined careers(or delayed/turned back careers, at the very least). Now, we have gaps in employment and we're having to take jobs with salaries 10,000+ less than what we were earning. It will take us YEARS to work up to the salary we left. I agree, it SO WRONG.