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Criminally low wage offer in a big city

I just left a job interview where everything was going great, I was super interested in the position, it's an area I have expertise and a college degree in, but at the end of the interview the manager had the gall to offer me a $20k salary. I tried to negotiate, I was looking for 40, and pointed out that 20k is below minimum wage in our city. He was unfased. Spent the whole interview before that talking up how well the company treats employees and how everyone gets a say and people work there at least 5 years. If you treated people so well you would at least pay them minimum wage. And this was on the white collar/office side of the business, I can't even imagine the criminal wages they're paying workers in the warehouse. How can a business even get away with this?? I suppose I might…


I just left a job interview where everything was going great, I was super interested in the position, it's an area I have expertise and a college degree in, but at the end of the interview the manager had the gall to offer me a $20k salary. I tried to negotiate, I was looking for 40, and pointed out that 20k is below minimum wage in our city. He was unfased. Spent the whole interview before that talking up how well the company treats employees and how everyone gets a say and people work there at least 5 years. If you treated people so well you would at least pay them minimum wage. And this was on the white collar/office side of the business, I can't even imagine the criminal wages they're paying workers in the warehouse. How can a business even get away with this?? I suppose I might as well get comfortable living on unemployment, it's boring but at least I'm not working for pennies.

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