You must take greater risks to reap a great reward. My point in the original post was that there are literally hundreds out here willing to take the risk that OP skipped out on. He missed his chance.The issue is the new job wasn’t guaranteed
it’s taking a leap of faith
His old job is at risk if they find out he’s bunking off to look for a new employer if he doesn’t have a sufficient excuse eyebrows will be raised. OP has rent/ mortgage bills to pay. I remember taking a day off work to do a job interview for a Hail Mary job application the current employers started questioning my absences and being sceptical of their legitimacy.
Obviously, I take no pride in a black man missing a job, but the true enemy here was natural selection selecting him out the pool. There is much much much hungrier competition out here.



. You should’ve agreed with the date then told your current job an emergency came up for that date and you can’t come in. Or you could’ve explained the situation and see if you could do a quick introductory phone call with the hiring manager first since you wouldn’t be able to do a full on meeting yet. Gotta show youre proactive atleast. I remember when I was like 16 or 18(don’t remember) I had job interview for JC penny. Lady looked me in the eye, shook my hand and told me I was hired. That was the last time I heard from her. Taught me a valuable lesson going forward
and had a dope personality to boot) they loved me, even asked me when would be my best starting date. Then all of a sudden the communication gets scarce. I keep having to e-mail the recruiter and she's like "We're still determining hiring allocations etc etc. but we definitely want you so hang tight." So every week I get a little update...

cause I was striking out on my job search, so I try to be extra careful with any fukkery,