No-offered people who ended up at firms: no-offer ever come up?
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 2:01 pm
So basically I was no offered as a 2L. I ended up at another firm I'm very excited about; my resume is excellent (pre-LS, 1L and 2L SAs, etc) and no one seeing it would ever have any reason to suspect that I was no offered.
My question is basically to people like me, what do you say around the office if/when it comes up for some reason? In law school I've been lying about it and just saying I got an offer but moved firms because I felt like it. Saves everyone a lot of awkwardness and no one ever gives it a second thought.
In my interview with this firm I was never explicitly asked whether I got an offer so I genuinely don't know whether they think I did or not. I suspect that they may suspect I did not get an offer, based on the fact I interviewed in October of 3L.
I also get that this doesn't really come up in normal conversation often. Like, at school during 3L, I've been asked straight up probably twice by two socially awkward as fuck people. This is when I just say "Yea of course I got an offer." No one will ever be the wiser and like I said avoids a ton of awkwardness, as well as my classmates/colleagues potentially thinking less of me based on the stigma.
The only reason I think I might be a little hesitant to lie at the firm is like, if the managing partner who hired me is around (it's a small regional office of the biglaw firm, and an even smaller group,) he could hear or even just catch wind of it and be like, wait wtf, he did get an offer? It's also possible he still thinks I actually did lol, because all of my references he talked to were from other firms where I did get offers to come back (1L for 2L).
Maybe a paranoid consideration, and I realize if people are socially well adjusted people it may be never come up. But then again they are lawyers, so who knows.
What have you/would you guys say?
My question is basically to people like me, what do you say around the office if/when it comes up for some reason? In law school I've been lying about it and just saying I got an offer but moved firms because I felt like it. Saves everyone a lot of awkwardness and no one ever gives it a second thought.
In my interview with this firm I was never explicitly asked whether I got an offer so I genuinely don't know whether they think I did or not. I suspect that they may suspect I did not get an offer, based on the fact I interviewed in October of 3L.
I also get that this doesn't really come up in normal conversation often. Like, at school during 3L, I've been asked straight up probably twice by two socially awkward as fuck people. This is when I just say "Yea of course I got an offer." No one will ever be the wiser and like I said avoids a ton of awkwardness, as well as my classmates/colleagues potentially thinking less of me based on the stigma.
The only reason I think I might be a little hesitant to lie at the firm is like, if the managing partner who hired me is around (it's a small regional office of the biglaw firm, and an even smaller group,) he could hear or even just catch wind of it and be like, wait wtf, he did get an offer? It's also possible he still thinks I actually did lol, because all of my references he talked to were from other firms where I did get offers to come back (1L for 2L).
Maybe a paranoid consideration, and I realize if people are socially well adjusted people it may be never come up. But then again they are lawyers, so who knows.
What have you/would you guys say?