If you are indeed offering a "competitive salary" why don't you put the numbers in the description?

I asked for a raise. I was well prepared to show what I brought to the company and how the company profited during the last year grom my work specifically in contrast to other employees and new hires. My boss countered that was still just doing my job as expected so why should he pay me more? I said, my general costs of sustaining the continued quality and amount of work had gone up and sadly I had to either ask for a higher rate or nove on to find a better offer to sustain me. And since new hires got higher wages anyways, he'd have more expenses because they wouldn't be able to deliver my output and he'd have extra costs for training and the hiring process so he should just give me a raise. He laughed and said it was a funny joke. 6 weeks later he realised it was indeed no joke when I quit. But I doubt he'll learn anything from it

I asked for a raise for the first time ever: I spent ages gathering evidence and preparing to present my case, but my boss did not look impressed. I found out shortly afterwards that the other three members of the team had also asked for raises the same week. 😬 We all got them, though!

I recently did same after finding out that our new hires were making more than i as a manager was. Was told there "weren't any assessments for raises" for a few months yet. I put in my two week notice... Magically they came up with the ability to authorize a $4 per hour raise. I refused and left. A month later i was chatting with former boss about horror movies and he mentioned my spot had opened up again, the new hire rarely showed up, and offered 5$ more per hour. Like an idiot i took it and went back to a few other changes i had requested. The positive changes lasted about a week and now the job is worse than it was in first place. Sigh. Readying myself to leave again. Think I'll try office work again, customer service is intolerable right now

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...and then he just shook his head and walked away.

Love this.

YES, THANK YOU!

If I am already a butterfly why would I go back to caterpillar? As if that was even possible

Seriously! Such a time waster for everyone.

THIS

Are they allowed to ask this as I have a huge gap now due to illness which I thought they couldn’t delve into?

👏👏👏

This is reasonable for a well defined and reasonable time frame, like, would you like that new title and pay bump? Do this extra tasks for two weeks, then we'll evaluate, and if it works out you get it and if not you go back to your former position and tasks. That's reasonable. But if they're not willing to give you specifics, a firm time frame and clear expectations, and all in writing too, it's just a carrot you'll never get.

So pretty much a tinder date.

And they can cancel at any time.

You should be glad. Had you been hired, your expertise will mean nothing to them - you are a new hiree. As a consultant they'll listen to you.

Recruiters however live off this chaos.

Dear senior management, cc HR, Sometimes what's best for the company is having healthy, happy, well-paid employees who *want* to do what's best for the company.

Could end up in a lawsuit depending on contracts

Never work off the clock!!!

Teehee

Not false. Not to say in a job interview, but not false.

Ivan from Rocky IV per chance?

hilarious!! 😂

Use the pen and for filling out applications and hthe mints for interview.........then on leaving give your old company a gift, a turd in a box for all the times they treated you like s**t

Wow, at least she started with the crazy

I'm not surprised by the stupidity of this, but I am super surprised that they actually heard back from the potential employer at all! And with (seemingly?) constructive feedback too? Seems like a myth lol

What a sad world we live in when appropriate compensation is so unexpected and delightful that people have medical emergencies due to their physical reaction...

Oh I’ve had better “On Fridays you can wear jeans for $5 that’s a vague donation we know you’ll never check up on!”

That you were dumb enough to go along with more than two?

Yes! An offer is the first step of a contract. If the offer is accepted, it should not be possible to rescind without penalty, because the contract is complete on acceptance. (Contracts don't have to be written).

Shhhh! Don't tell the workers that, they'll start making DEMANDS! /s

I've been experiencing this very same issue. I'm applying for jobs that I've been doing the last 30 years. I get called for interviews, some of them require up to 3 of them, only to be ghosted. Not even a "thanks anyway but we've decided to go another way" email or call . Just... nothing. So frustrating.