Have you ever been promised to work on one client during an interview and then ended up on another client that you didn't want to work on? What did you do?

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Remind whomever that while you are happy to help the common cause and work for the greater good and all that bullshit, you didn’t leave your other job to go work on that account and that you’d like them to keep the promise that brought you there.

If they ignore it, escalate it.
If they still ignore it, bail.

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I once interviewed at a place and talked about all the groups and clients. I made clear there was one I wasn’t interested in. They offered me the job and said I would be on that account. I told them I would take the job but not for that group. They wound up hiring me for another group anyway

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Early in my career I was offered a job at Leo in Chicago I think on Sony. I was all set to relocate. They were flying me out to meet the "team" and I already had my plane ticket when they Informed me that some staffing shifts had occurred and now I'd be on Philip Morris (Marlboro). I turned the job down. At least I hadn't relocated yet!!

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Yeah, when the offer came, it was for different accounts. Passed on the job.

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