Declining a Job Offer After Verbally Accepting

[kissenger]

The only solution I can see which would allow you to save face and yet still decline the job is to inform them that you aren't happy with the T&Cs and will only accept the job if they are renegotiated to your satisfaction.

If they decline (as is likely) you have a valid reason for declining which shouldn't burn future bridges.

If they accept then you have the job you wanted all along.

 

[Haggisman]

In general if you accept an offer you ought to stick with it - the OP did accept their offer.

Not really, he accepted an offer for fictional job "X", the actual job on offer was job "Y" with what sounds like completely different terms

 

[zola25]

^ To be fair if you read dowie's entire post he also states exactly that