So I finally made a decision between the two offers I had, resigned from my current role and agreed my leave date, then emailed the accepted role to tell them my last day as they asked me to do. They then replied saying the next induction date is 9 days later so is that ok for my start date. Ummm... no.. I can't go for over a week without pay! So now they're trying to get me to bring my leave date forward so I can start on the day of the induction before. Inductions are run every 2 weeks.
Every job I've ever had (and I've had quite a few), I've started and then attended the next available induction whenever that is. Is it common practice to tell new starters they can only start on one of their fortnightly induction days?
It's really bugging me that I'm only finding this out now after I've resigned, why didn't they make this clear to me sooner. Note that I'm taking on a fairly senior non-lawyer role in a law firm.