Lateral Hire: Simple email read over 100 times in 1 day? Red Flag?

Received a lateral analyst offer a couple of weeks ago from a big bank and HR yesterday reached out to inform me that I’ve passed the background check and inquired whether I would be able to start the new job in 2 weeks. I had sent out an email responding to the HR that I would be able to start in 2 weeks and that I was excited to join the team.

The HR didn’t reply to my email but, over the course of the day, that one simple email that I sent to HR was read over 100+ times (I have an email tracker installed by default which is usually pretty accurate) presumably by a few different people in the company. 

I’ve haven’t come across a situation where a simple email that I sent was reviewed that many times and was wondering if I should be concerned about this and what’s the likely reason for the email being reviewed over 100 times in 1 days. The HR also hasn’t responded to my email as well if that matters. 

Maybe I'm a bit pessimistic but when relatively unusual things like this occur, I have a tendency to feel like the team may screw me over (e.g., rescind offer, hire me and then fire me within a few months, interview others even though I accepted offer already, etc) and the last thing that I want in this type of economy is to move into an unstable job/company and get screwed over somehow. 

Thanks in advance.

7 Comments
 

Probably forwarded the email that you can start in 2 weeks to the rest of the team. It’s not that deep

 

Yep they got everyone in the office to look at your acceptance email to laugh at you before rescinding the offer

 

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