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> And then she tweeted that she would be joining the company.

> “A few days after that, I got a call from an executive recruiter who I had never heard from before, and she said, 'There is no easy way to say this. We have to rescind our offer due to changing company priorities.

When you tweet about a company you're about to join, maybe tagging them for good measure, it's like focusing the eye of Sauron on yourself. Unless your timeline is completely inoffensive and bland, maybe wait until you've started... or maybe just don't.

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This is bizarre victim blaming. People tweeting their excitement about joining a company is totally normal and if anything should show they are someone who will also probably amplify the company’s social marketing.

I'm not trying to place blame, I would however like to warn readers of this board, younger ones who have grown up with social media and consider it normal to share everything they do, that a lot of companies don't think that "amplify [a] company’s social marketing" is an unequivocally good thing that they want their employees to engage in. When you're in a vulnerable position like just before starting a new job, why invite that extra scrutiny.

I don't think you're wrong about the "maybe just don't". Also, you're not working there until you've actually started.

Assuming there was an offensive tweet that they hadn't looked at yet, why wouldn't they just come out and say as much? "we have to rescind our offer because we saw this prior tweet that __MORE DETAILS HERE__"

What possible good, from the point of view of the company, would come out of stating that as the actual reason to the candidate? Companies, like Stripe, are completely ghosting candidates who did long onsite interviews largely due to perceived legal risks in sharing any feedback whatsoever about the actual interview performance.

This isn’t interview performance, it’s a rescinded employment offer.

Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I think that warrants an explanation to the theoretical offense. Or if there are legal ramifications, maybe rescinding the offer based on a tweet shouldn’t haven’t happened in the first place?

Less ammunition for a news item, for one.

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