Should I wait on the official letter offer before giving notice, or is the email offer enough? What to do?

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Get the offer letter first before giving notice. Email offer is not enough to be on the safer side.

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My friend works in HR and has told me a bunch of horror stories about people who quit and their offers fell through. It's more common than you think.

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Yes wait for the written offer. I one time got a verbal offer but didn't get the written offer until 5 months later! I obviously took another job within that time frame but it would have been bad if I relied on that offer and gave in my two weeks.

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*resignation letter. FML.. i hate mondays!

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Thanks!

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I will wait. My guess is that they haven't reviewed the background report yet since it got to them friday after 5pm.

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Wait until you signed the official letter and your background check complete. Those things can take surprisingly long.

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Mine took less than a day. A company call hireright did the background check. I put in my info on thursday and on friday they said the company had the full report.

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I can imagine. I verbally accepted the offer on thursday.. so just waiting for the results of the background check and then the official offer letter to hand in my resume. I am trying to be nice and give 2 weeks notice, but this is cutting it close.

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I got my official offer letter and I signed it. But the letter still stays employment conditional upon completion of background check. And i had to go through that whole nonsense all over again today so that thry can verify me. Ugh! 😥

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I officially resigned today! I am out of EY in 2 weeks

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