Texas woman gets a new job with 40% higher salary. Days before joining, offer gets cancelled. She blames her ex- boss

A Texas woman claims a promising career move turned into a nightmare just days before she was due to start a new job. The 29-year-old said she had resigned from her role as a senior operations coordinator after securing a position at another logistics firm with a 40% salary increase. But three days before joining, she says the offer was withdrawn after her former employer issued a cease-and-desist over an alleged non-compete. She insists she never signed one and claims the document was created after her resignation.

Woman says new job disappeared days before joining

According to the woman’s Reddit post, she had worked as a senior operations coordinator for three years before deciding to move to another logistics company. She said she gave her “standard two-week notice” after receiving an offer that came with a 40% salary bump. The transition appeared straightforward until just three days before her scheduled joining date.

The woman claims the new company contacted her to say that it was rescinding the offer. According to her account, the decision came after her previous employer’s corporate legal department sent a formal cease-and-desist letter. The letter allegedly accused her of violating an active two-year non-compete agreement under Texas law.

‘I never signed a non-compete’

The claim immediately raised a question for the woman because, according to her Reddit post, she had never signed such an agreement. “I never signed a non-compete in my life,” she wrote. She said she therefore asked her former employer to provide a copy of the agreement being cited against her. Her ex-boss allegedly responded by sending her a PDF containing an electronic signature that appeared to be dated three years earlier.

At that point, the woman says she decided to examine the document more closely.

She says PDF metadata told a different story

According to the Reddit post, the woman extracted the raw metadata from the PDF. She claims the metadata showed that the document file had actually been created and digitally signed only four days earlier, which she says was two weeks after she had resigned. The woman consequently accused her former employer of creating a false document and using her old paperwork to make the agreement appear legitimate. “They literally forged my signature,” she alleged, claiming the signature had been taken from her old tax paperwork.

She further claimed the alleged document was created specifically to prevent her from joining the new employer.

New employer allegedly refused to rehire her

The situation, according to the woman, did not end with the disputed contract. She said the new logistics company continued to refuse to rehire her because it did not want to expose itself to potential legal action. That left her without the job she had accepted and, by her account, facing the consequences of an agreement she says she never signed. “My former boss destroyed my livelihood,” she wrote, describing the alleged document as a “blatently fraudulant contract.”

The Reddit user ultimately turned to the online community with questions about her legal options.

Internet reacts

A user wrote, "Time to hire a real Employment lawyer." One said, "You have an insane lawsuit on your hands. Contact an employment attorney immediately to file a lawsuit for tortious interference with prospective business relations and fraud. Do not contact your former employer again until your lawyer is doing the talking, because they dug themselves into a massive legal trap." One added, "Congratulations. This kind of targeted fraud is going to pay off big time in court. You might be able to retire."