—u/Adept_Car_9997 “I had a recruiter tell me I’m never going to find a job at my current salary range at the time, and that I need to take a $35k pay cut. I think at the time I was making $85k.” —u/tams420 “A similar thing happened to me, too, when I was right out of college. I had a bachelor’s degree in computer science, and was asking for $40k (which was considered a decent starting salary for the geographic area I was looking, even if it’s low as fuck for my field overall). A recruiter told me I had to take $20k. I stopped responding to them and got offered more than what I was asking for a week later when I ditched the recruiter.” —u/MGZero —u/ManiacDan “After this exchange, I wouldn’t want to work there for any of the relatively small increases I’m seeing here, so I would just reply. ‘She will not accept $53k.’ And force them to do the raising to see what they think of their fuck-up.” —u/TwatsThat
