
Quoting
Sartin v. Mazur, 237 Va. 82, 85, 375 S.E.2d 741, 743 (1989), emphasis added.
Because the actual employment was terminable at will, it would be illogical to hold, as the plaintiff urges, that somehow the offer of such employment was not terminable at will. It would be absurd to require an employer, which had changed its mind after an offer had been made, to actually employ the applicant for one hour or one day so that the employee could then be discharged.
Consequently, we hold that an offer for at will employment is terminable at any time, which includes the time before the prospective employee assumes the position. In sum, the doctrine of free terminability draws no distinction between the offer of employment and the actual act of employment. In this case, there was merely an unfulfilled promise to give employment which was revocable at will by the employer.