Comment Re:Confusing (Score 1) 102
I don't know why you would say things like "offer was accepted but not contract was signed" in another comment and then mention just "offers" without saying acceptance when you try to lecture me on it. Also I'm puzzled why you would mention "counter-offer", as if it's related. I mean what happens after you "counter-offer"? Eventually you have to "accept" it right? In this case, it's alleged Stripe rescinded offers after the candidates accepted them, so I don't there should be any ambiguity as to what we're talking about. Whether or not there was a counter-offer, and you don't know whether there was, the offers were accepted. You're not even being coherent.
I've always been talking in terms of having accepted the offer. In many (first world) countries, accepting an offer (e.g. explicitly replying to the offer letter with "Yes, I accept the offer") makes the offer a contract, even before a formal and more detailed employment contract is coming later. An offer is a contract. It may or may not be a formal employment contract, but it is a contract. Once a candidate accepts the offer, it becomes a legally binding contract, in many jurisdictions, e.g.
https://employmentlaw101.ca/em...
https://www.gov.uk/job-offers-...
In those jurisdictions, there are limited things a company can do to retract the offer after it's accepted, without any legal consequences.
Given these counterexamples to your ultimatum statements that there's no legal protection for this anywhere, I think it's time for you to contemplate shoving everything you said, including the misplaced comments about autism, to where they belong.