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Posted by Mitch45 on Mon Oct 5 11:22:52 2026, in response to The economy is dead, posted by Peter Rosa on Mon Oct 5 09:05:36 2026. Something similar happened to me years ago. Will never forget it.In the fall of 1990, a few months after I graduated from law school, I applied for an attorney's position with the NYC Law Department Family Law Division. I was interviewed, interviewed again and again. The City did a background check and I was then hired with a congratulations and welcome aboard letter. I was fingerprinted, photographed and provided with payroll information, where I would be working, everything. I was advised that my start date would be announced within 2 weeks. Everything looked great. My uncle bought me a new briefcase with my initials monogramed on the front. Then, a few days later, I read in the paper that Mayor Dinkins was instituting a hiring freeze due to the City economy. I thereafter received a letter from the Law Department referencing the hiring freeze and assuring me that since I had already been hired, the freeze did not apply to me. I was told to stand by as my start date announcement was imminent. September passed, October passed, no start date. In November I received a letter from the Law Department re-confirming that I had been hired and that they were working with the Mayor's office to get a start date. I was told to hang tight. November passed, December passed, no start date. In January I received a letter from the Law Department advising that "in their view", I had been hired but that the Mayor's office was slow in providing start dates for people in the pipeline like me. January passed, February passed. My school loans were starting to come due. Banks were calling me. In March, I received another letter from the Law Department advising that they did not know when I would be getting a start date and that if I wanted, I could start exploring other opportunities. Seeing the writing on the wall, I updated my resume and started the mass mailings. Unfortunately, the economy in 1991 was bad and private firms were not hiring. Finally, in August, 11 months after I was hired by the Law Department, I was hired by a small downtown Manhattan firm. My starting salary was $15,000 per year less than the Law Department would have paid but I had no choice. A month later, I received a final letter from the Law Department, expressing their regret at what happened and that I would be better served if I moved on from their offer. I was told that if a start date came through, they would notify me immediately. I never heard from them again. |
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