India, July 8 -- The co-founder of Fuze Finance has revealed his reply to a candidate who accepted a job at his startup, only to back out a couple of days before he was supposed to join. Srijan R Shetty, the IIT-educated co-founder of the fintech company, shared a screenshot of his email to the employee who bailed for a better offer.

His response has been going steadily viral on X, where it has sparked a discussion on workplace etiquette and the ethicality of job hunting after accepting an offer.

"One of the engineers who was due to join today sent a message over the weekend that they won't join," Shetty wrote in his X post on Monday. The Dubai-based entrepreneur acknowledged that he felt a "bit let down" by the engineer's decision.

"I...