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So, the other supervisor did offer me a job yesterday. If you call being asked to work for $3/hr *less* than what I'm getting as a temp an offer. I managed not to laugh in her face, but it was difficult.
Add "it's a way into the company. You'd only have to work here for a year and then you could transfer to a different position" was just a corker.
I don't know if she earns so much that she doesn't have to worry about things like paying the bills, or if she's married well, but asking someone to work for $6000/year less than what they're already getting is just STUPID. Unless you offering lots of unusual benefits to compensate.
Add "it's a way into the company. You'd only have to work here for a year and then you could transfer to a different position" was just a corker.
I don't know if she earns so much that she doesn't have to worry about things like paying the bills, or if she's married well, but asking someone to work for $6000/year less than what they're already getting is just STUPID. Unless you offering lots of unusual benefits to compensate.
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Is your boss, perhaps, on drugs?
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My boss was decent enough to warn me that I make $2/hr more than what the maximum the company pays for the position, and that they probably wouldn't hire me because of that. He is really happy that I've been willing to stay on as a temp as long as I have (though it's really because I suck at job hunting), but he hasn't held out false promises.
But yeah, I have no idea what she was thinking. When I told her that I make more as a temp, she came back with the "It's a way into the company". It's like she couldn't see that working for a company that underpays isn't at all a good move for me.
And according to my friend who works as an admin assistant, I'm not the first person that they've tried to underbid. They lost a payroll/accounts guy last month because they wanted to pay him less as a permanent employee than he was getting as a temp.
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When I told her that I make more as a temp, she came back with the "It's a way into the company". It's like she couldn't see that working for a company that underpays isn't at all a good move for me.
I truly don't understand people who do this. I once had a boss offer me a "promotion" (to managing an entire department instead of a group--an addition of about 40 more people to surpervise) at the same rate of pay that I was making. Like, what??? I guess perhaps it's a "stragetic business move" *snort* They figure if the prospective employee falls for it, then yay they save big money, and at worse, they just pay for a new temp. *sigh*
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I assume you told her where to shove it?
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