I don't understand the explanation you proffered. All my communication with them has been with email, and they have consistently offered me the option of hard copies in paper if I so desired. Are you implying that email offers don't carry the same legal weights as those written on papers? Or put differently, what makes my offer less recognizable in the eye of the law as you have so described: Now if the offer was made in writing with a penalty in the event the employer breaks it that is a different matter. Besides, you were silence on what redress are available to me. Are you implying once again that I don’t have any grounds for seeking redress or even bargaining for some more favorable considerations even where I stand to suffer severely in this instance?

Copy of my revised offer:

Dear Abiodun:

We are happy that you have decided to join xxxxxxx. as a Senior Associate Engineer in the XXXXXXXX located in XXXXXXXX.

As part of the hiring process, we provide an orientation to XXXXX. This orientation enables us to provide you with a wide range of information and obtain copies of documents that are needed to process your offer of employment. Beginning on your start date, Monday, January 26, 2009, you will attend a three-day orientation. The details of this orientation (specific time, location, and additional instructions) will be provided in a follow-up communication directly from an Engineering Rotational Development Representative.

Our offer of employment is contingent on the fact that prior to your scheduled start date with our company, you will have successfully completed each degree you have indicated on our employment application, as well as achieving a cumulative grade point average of 2.8 or higher. You must provide us with an original certified college transcript for each of these degrees. You must request that your transcript for each degree earned be sent to my attention directly from your college or university. If the transcript(s) is not available, a letter from your registrar verifying that all degree requirements have been completed will be a temporary alternative. If you use this alternative, you must provide the original certified transcript within a 3-month period. After these employment offer conditions have been met, this documentation will be placed in your Personal History Folder.

XXXXXX complies with federal law by hiring only persons who can establish that they are eligible to work in the United States. To comply with this law, we must ask you to produce proof of employment eligibility. This proof must take the form of documents described on the attached “Notice to Applicants.” You must produce this proof on the first day of employment, or our employment offer will be withdrawn.

Attached are documents and a checklist you should carefully review prior to reporting for work. You must bring all of the documents identified on the checklist with you, unless they were submitted through the application process. This documentation will help ensure that there are no changes to your start date or to your employment offer.

Again, we are glad that you are joining us. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Sincerely,