Advice needed!

[Pogle]

OK, I've got a verbal offer of a contract down south - (subject to checks) starting on Monday. A
I've just been asked for an interview for another role rather closer to home, less money, but in a city centre, where i have friends with a spare room and at a push I could come home a couple of nights a week. B
I would prefer contract B
They cant interview me til next week.

How do I put off contract A to allow me to interview for contract B?
Should I just take contract A and put up with it?
Should I turn down A and hope I get B?

Contract A are still looking for more people and Contract B doesn't want to interview anyone else, so far.

Anyone else been in this situation and how badly can I stuff it up!!

[EternalOptimist]

OK, I've got a verbal offer of a contract down south - (subject to checks) starting on Monday. A
I've just been asked for an interview for another role rather closer to home, less money, but in a city centre, where i have friends with a spare room and at a push I could come home a couple of nights a week. B
I would prefer contract B
They cant interview me til next week.

How do I put off contract A to allow me to interview for contract B?
Should I just take contract A and put up with it?
Should I turn down A and hope I get B?

Contract A are still looking for more people and Contract B doesn't want to interview anyone else, so far.

Anyone else been in this situation and how badly can I stuff it up!!

The oral offer down south sounds promising to me

[threaded]

A bird in the hand can be cooked and eaten.

[Pogle]

The oral offer down south sounds promising to me

[norrahe]

You don't know how long gig B is going to take to 1)interview you and 2) then to interview everyone else and 3)then actually get back to you.

It could drag on for ages and you could be left without anything......

Not worth the risk really. IMHO

[EternalOptimist]

it was a genuine opinion as well as a joke. Its the right thing to do, a verbal agreement should bind you, you would expect the same treatment

[norrahe]

I wouldn't do that to EO if i were you

[HairyArsedBloke]

A bird in the hand can be cooked and eaten.

Aye

[EternalOptimist]

I wouldn't do that to EO if i were you

any hole is a goal

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Anyone else been in this situation

Me, almost every time.

and how badly can I stuff it up!!

Comprehensively, if you work at it.

I always take the bird in the hand.


I suppose it would be irrelevant in practice to speak of Right Of Substitution? If my plumber got 2 jobs at once, he'd send a subcontractor round to one of them without asking first.