Originally Posted by
Ski Bird
This happened to me. Was offered a Jun '24 start date. When I accepted, I let the HR folks know that I was availabale earlier and would gladly slide to the left ... they offered me an Indoc start date in May '24.
May comes around, I get to Indoc, I get on the payroll ... and then everything from June through the end of the year was cancelled.
Short version is ... start early if you can. A class date that hasn't happened yet might disappear on you.
Yep, what the senior folks have been telling us all along is still solid advice, even to this day. Grab the soonest seniority number at all costs. You never know where the line will be where on one side someone will have a great career and on the other it will be more turbulent earning hundreds of thousands of dollars less.