I’ve recently accepted a job offer with a new firm. The job is more focused on corporate than my role at my current firm, which I thought would be good experience. However, the team I’m set to join has recently lost a string of associates and I’ve heard on the grapevine that it’s not the happiest of ships.
I’m thinking very seriously of going back and turning down the job, which I’ve only accepted verbally. What are the ethics of this? I haven’t told my current firm yet and obviously I don’t want them to know I’ve been talking to other firms if I don’t go. But now that it’s got this far, I’m worried that it will leak out and get back to my current firm if I don’t go. But that seems a pretty poor reason to take a new job.
