Did this work out badly for the company doing the interviewing? I mean it sucks that they want to underpay people but mentioning this in the manner that they did would seem to serve the exact purpose that it fulfilled, applicants who aren’t desperate enough to tolerate the low pay will be filtered out. The “wait no” part of this story seems kind of strange and difficult to believe being particularly accurate because surely this is the outcome they wanted. It’s nice for OP that they could walk away from insulting compensation and it probably felt good to have that empowering sense of dignity but I feel like the original post and the subsequent screen capping and re-posting of it under the title “mic drop” is intended to frame this as some sort of a victory over the man when it’s actually just a mundane and expected outcome from a process designed to leave the interviewers with only the applicants that are vulnerable enough to accept pay conditions below what would be reasonable.
Did this work out badly for the company doing the interviewing? I mean it sucks that they want to underpay people but mentioning this in the manner that they did would seem to serve the exact purpose that it fulfilled, applicants who aren’t desperate enough to tolerate the low pay will be filtered out. The “wait no” part of this story seems kind of strange and difficult to believe being particularly accurate because surely this is the outcome they wanted. It’s nice for OP that they could walk away from insulting compensation and it probably felt good to have that empowering sense of dignity but I feel like the original post and the subsequent screen capping and re-posting of it under the title “mic drop” is intended to frame this as some sort of a victory over the man when it’s actually just a mundane and expected outcome from a process designed to leave the interviewers with only the applicants that are vulnerable enough to accept pay conditions below what would be reasonable.