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Lost a job offer for being reasonable

So I applied to a job for a chicken-fast-food place and I was excited after I received my offer for the job! Good pay, and I wanted to move up in the company etc. Anyways, fast forward to the orientation, the HR lady was going over information in the employee handbook with a PowerPoint. We get to the part about pay, and in big bold letters it reads “Discussing your pay with other employees will lead to immediate termination.” Nowi think that’s illegal across the USA, but I’m in California so I know for fact it is. I being the idiot I am, tell her that is and they can get in a lot of trouble for doing so. She claimed to not know… like you work in HR and don’t know this? So anyways, the next day I received an email stating they are retracting the offer of employment.…


So I applied to a job for a chicken-fast-food place and I was excited after I received my offer for the job! Good pay, and I wanted to move up in the company etc. Anyways, fast forward to the orientation, the HR lady was going over information in the employee handbook with a PowerPoint. We get to the part about pay, and in big bold letters it reads “Discussing your pay with other employees will lead to immediate termination.” Nowi think that’s illegal across the USA, but I’m in California so I know for fact it is. I being the idiot I am, tell her that is and they can get in a lot of trouble for doing so. She claimed to not know… like you work in HR and don’t know this? So anyways, the next day I received an email stating they are retracting the offer of employment. I feel so fucking dumb because I really needed the job and I didn’t mean to say it to be a smartass or anything. I just felt I was letting them know..

So that sucks 🙁

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