Sorry, but how did they actually force you? Like Physically snatching the contract if you were carrying with you?

He said I cannot give counter offer unless he has proof in hand and he need to share that with upper management to increase your offered package.

Since I forwarded letter without thinking anything that what could be happened if anything went wrong? My mistake, agreed. I hope others will learn from my mistake

@Tinks_say Assuming this is in India, i'm adding the tag, let me know if otherwise.

@FooTheBar it was not mentioned "Do not share or Confidential " neither in the email nor in the offer letter.

What was the reaction of company A? Did they retract their offer?

@FooTheBar I think so. OP said "I ended up nothing in hand".

OP also forgot to mention that the letter in fact was not confidential. So we have to wait for an update

@Tinks_say I suspect that, If you received the letter over email from a company official, almost always it will have a footer mentioning the confidentiality of the information and attachments. Can you double check and confirm?

@FooTheBar Or, OP missed that part. I have strong feeling about this because I'm from the same location, and in my experience, all organizations here use that good-for-nothing clause for everything and everyone. I'd be really surprised if that's not the case here.

@Tinks_say - Two things. First - you learned a lesson. Second - you avoided working for two crappy sounding places.

@dan.mwasuser2321368 I'm sorry, how is organization A crappy, again?

@SouravGhosh - of course, it might be location/culture specific, but insisting that a job offer is "confidential" is very strange in my mind, and rescinding an offer based on someone discussing that offer seems punitive only for the sake of being punitive

@dan.mwasuser2321368 first part is OK, but given that we're discussing based on the fact that the letter was in fact confidential, what other reaction would you expect from organization A? I'd say, withdrawing the offer is a mild reaction, they could have pursued the legal path, too, which would not have ended well for OP. Whether the letter should be confidential or not, is a different question altogether.

That's a very unfortunate situation. I have a hard time imagining this to happen in the UK. If a UK employer got a phone call like this, they wouldn't say "thank you for this useful information about this candidate", but "thank you for this useful information about your company, I will avoid ever doing business with you".

It is possible that Employer B never actually spoke to Employer A, and said this to hurt your feelings. You don't have proof that B did this, right?

@dan.mwasuser2321368 My experience is that job offers are always confidential. Maybe it's because I've seen many large companies lately, but usually there's a clause in the application that says something like "from here on out, all of the application process is confidential"

Unless the OP specifically agreed to keep the offer letter confidential, they're under no obligation to keep it confidential. You can't just send things to people with notes that you want them to keep it confidential and expect them to necessarily even notice that note.

@axus Employer A called me immediately after when I turned down offer of employer B. And said will take action against sharing confidential offer letter with third person and withdrawn offer. They said will send me court notice through their lawyer.

How did company B know you had aon offer letter from company A? Did you tell them? Were you trying to play one off against the other? This would've been a bad idea - keep different applications hermetically isolated from each other.

Instead of trying to use an other offer letter to negotiate simply say "No, I'm not willing to work for less than XXX" it shouldn't matter to them whether that opinion of yours is because you already have an offer of XXX (or close to it) by a different company or simply because you think that's what you are worth. Don't go into the details just be firm with what you want to accept.