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First off you did nothing wrong at all! Its a good thing people are after you, it happens and companies know what happens and knows the best offer wins. Nothing new here. Always pursue the best offers around, its a game these companies play, Google vs. Facebook for example.

The hiring game as nothing to do with you, its a game played between companies. Just be sure to call the person tomorrow and tell them you have a better offer. No need to feel bad, feel good people are after you. Its not the first time this happens. If they really want you they may match your other offer. Good Luck and feel good.

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"First off you did nothing wrong at all!" <-- That's a dangerous statement. He [guessing gender] did something wrong by agreeing to be in the employ of the first company and then agreeing to be in the employ of the second company without first notifying the first company.

There is nothing wrong with fishing for offers, but its wrong to accept two offers without rescinding one. Accepting two offers is like marrying two people in a country/state that bans polygyny or polyandry.

Like I said below only in a perfect world, it happens all the time. Its nothing new and just business. No hard feelings on any side, the employee and companies know all this and don't see it as anything bad or good, just the way the market is. When your in demand - your in demand. :)

You're probably too young to have had many people treat your hard work and money with disrespect. You'll think about it differently further down the track when you learn that it's worth trying to do the right thing when you can.

Nobody disrespected anyone, that's just business sometimes you lose, sometimes you win, which ever side your on you just keep going. No right or wrong here, if it was that case always do the right thing, in this case the other business just lost talent, they wanna compete they can by offering or matching it.

Just business.

Many people think that it costs nothing to anyone to recruit a person into a job. I think the recruiter would not agree with "no right or wrong" - they put in the effort to find this guy, shepherd him through the recruitment process, is now not getting paid and has missed the chance to put someone else into the job who would have stayed. I suspect that recruiter might feel somewhat less circumspect about the outcome.

Thank you, I feel a lot better!

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