• xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    If you think you’re being low balled then refuse the offer and more power to you.

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      11 months ago

      The problem is that they’re wasting the unemployed and jobseekers time and money, and depriving them of employment opportunities they actually want — sometimes dozens of hours, and hundreds of dollars per person.

      Let’s not act like false advertising of job offers is anything but a crime that exploits the most economically vulnerable people… mkay

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        11 months ago

        Actually, I don’t know if you’ve done hiring before but to get to an interview the company has already spent a decent chunk of change on vetting and review. Refusing an offer at the last minute definitely sucks for the employer.

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          11 months ago

          Yeah, definitely.

          Had a low-balled offer once, and since I didn’t have an other offer, I signed. It was still better then the wage I had at the time.

          But I kept searching, and finally found a company that did pay me what I wanted.

          So when it was about time for me to go work at the new job, I said I quit. They were waiting on me for 10 weeks. Felt really good.

          Told them the reason was the wage, if they didn’t try to pay me less then what I was asking, I wouldn’t have been searching in the first place.

          They only have themselves to blame.

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      11 months ago

      That’s how we all got raises at my last job. Nobody cared to do QC and they needed QC. Me and like 3 of my friends there all said no so they offered raises for the position! Literally saying no was how we bumped our pay!

      I’m in a much better place now.