In a recent job interview, a business owner told me, “I always ask my employees how much money they need to survive. If someone tells me they need at least $10 per week to make ends meet, I’ll pay them $9 per week so that they’ll work hard for a pay raise. I find that’s the best way to motivate people.”
Then he pushed a small stack of papers toward me. The formatting was ruined, but I recognized it as my resume (that I had submitted as a single-page PDF). I’m guessing he mistakenly converted the file before he printed it. No big deal. But then he blamed me for the formatting issue and told me it gave him doubts about my abilities.
There were other red flags that I could go on and on about, but the title says it all. I wish you all luck in swerving these exploitative, out-of-touch creeps. I’ll be swerving this one.