Originally Posted by
JohnBurke
Not a chance. No contract existed to breach. If you're asserting that the advertisement represented a contract, or the invitation to move or job offer represented a verbal (or other) contract, you'd have a very hard time making that stick.
The only tangible contract is the one the original poster signed. Any other implied duty would be a legal battle that he'd be very unlikely to win.
I didn't say he was going to win. Just refuting his assertion that what he did was somehow justified by circumstances beyond his control. There were other options to signing that contract.