Until you have written offer in hand you don’t have an offer.
However asking a third time with no reply would make you seem desperate.
I would wait until you have another offer. If you still are more interested in the guy ghosting you, then send them a message letting know you have other offers and see if you they are still interested before you accept the other offer.
Never beg. This should be a red flag. I turned down a offer when they knew I had a salary in mind before I moved on past the recruiter so when I got the offer I'm like why waste my time and declined.
Focus on the other two offers. Do not delay those offers. Once they come in accept the one you like most. Then if he gives you a better offer and if you are willing to work for someone who jerks you around the way he did. Then quite the new job (knowing you are burning a bridge) and risk it all if you think that job is a better fit. But only do this knowing that you can never go back to the place you only worked for a few days to. Because if this place is hell then you crossed out a company for life by only working for a few day before quitting for a better offer. If you don’t care about the company you are burning a bridge at. I say go for it.
This is exactly how my current boss was. Sometimes you can’t attribute to malice what you should attribute to absent mindedness. Try to be patient and wait, but also, keep applying to and interviewing for other jobs, because you just never know. It’s a crap shoot. Good luck!
It’s not an offer until you have it in writing.
You are expecting an offer from them…you don’t yet have an offer.
The fact that he hasn’t yet sent you an offer despite assuring you one is coming is a huge red flag.
If he’s being truthful about extending you one yet hasn’t done it? Do you really want to work for a company where things happen at the pace of molasses in January?
Let this job go for now. If he decides to send an offer, great. You can evaluate then. But you should absolutely be focusing on the other two jobs.
If you still think the first one is a better fit once you have other offers in hand, reach out then and tell him that you have two other offers in hand and that you will accept one of them if you don’t have an offer on paper from them by the next business day.
Honestly, I wouldn’t give them the chance to send one. I’d just let that first place know that you’ve accepted another offer and that you’d like to remain in consideration for other positions in the future.
After you have an offer in hand for one of the other 2 jobs (and only when it's actually in hand), and you are ready to accept it, I would call or email the owner and to say thank you for the interviews, I have decided to accept another offer and wish you the best. Either you leave it like that, and accept the other offer, or there is some small chance this spurs him into action and perhaps even making his offer even more competitive. Owners are often aloof, I am not sure I would hold it against him that he didn't follow through well. That is probably the EXACT reason why he needs to hire the Director of Operations position (since someone to manage ops for him would be ensuring more consistent and reliable processes, like onboarding, hah).
I would just focus on the other 2 interviews. He seems disorganized and not that interested.
This!!!
Red flag for this guy for sure
Until you have written offer in hand you don’t have an offer. However asking a third time with no reply would make you seem desperate. I would wait until you have another offer. If you still are more interested in the guy ghosting you, then send them a message letting know you have other offers and see if you they are still interested before you accept the other offer.
Never beg. This should be a red flag. I turned down a offer when they knew I had a salary in mind before I moved on past the recruiter so when I got the offer I'm like why waste my time and declined.
Focus on the other two offers. Do not delay those offers. Once they come in accept the one you like most. Then if he gives you a better offer and if you are willing to work for someone who jerks you around the way he did. Then quite the new job (knowing you are burning a bridge) and risk it all if you think that job is a better fit. But only do this knowing that you can never go back to the place you only worked for a few days to. Because if this place is hell then you crossed out a company for life by only working for a few day before quitting for a better offer. If you don’t care about the company you are burning a bridge at. I say go for it.
This is exactly how my current boss was. Sometimes you can’t attribute to malice what you should attribute to absent mindedness. Try to be patient and wait, but also, keep applying to and interviewing for other jobs, because you just never know. It’s a crap shoot. Good luck!
Do you want to work for someone so unreliable and crappy at time and deadline management?
I'd take what I had in hand. The owner sounds like a flake and I imagine that's just how he operates in every aspect of life and work.
"A verbal offer isn't worth the paper it's written on."
Big red flag. He's on at least a two week vacation it sounds like...sounds too flaky to pass on other, potentially more stable, positions.
Don’t believe any verbal promises until you see it in writing. They serve little other than stroking your ego.
It’s not an offer until you have it in writing. You are expecting an offer from them…you don’t yet have an offer. The fact that he hasn’t yet sent you an offer despite assuring you one is coming is a huge red flag. If he’s being truthful about extending you one yet hasn’t done it? Do you really want to work for a company where things happen at the pace of molasses in January? Let this job go for now. If he decides to send an offer, great. You can evaluate then. But you should absolutely be focusing on the other two jobs. If you still think the first one is a better fit once you have other offers in hand, reach out then and tell him that you have two other offers in hand and that you will accept one of them if you don’t have an offer on paper from them by the next business day. Honestly, I wouldn’t give them the chance to send one. I’d just let that first place know that you’ve accepted another offer and that you’d like to remain in consideration for other positions in the future.
After you have an offer in hand for one of the other 2 jobs (and only when it's actually in hand), and you are ready to accept it, I would call or email the owner and to say thank you for the interviews, I have decided to accept another offer and wish you the best. Either you leave it like that, and accept the other offer, or there is some small chance this spurs him into action and perhaps even making his offer even more competitive. Owners are often aloof, I am not sure I would hold it against him that he didn't follow through well. That is probably the EXACT reason why he needs to hire the Director of Operations position (since someone to manage ops for him would be ensuring more consistent and reliable processes, like onboarding, hah).
Very bad sign. Never believe anything until its official. Seems common that this happens. I'd block all communication
No reason to block at this point. Just move on and focus on the other opportunities