Related Posts
More Posts
Hey guys, I need 11 likes. Thank you.
Thoughts on personal loans to consolidate Debt?
Visual Storyteller
His and hers. Rolex is a man’s diamond 😂
Enthusiast
She fell in love with a consultant and...
Additional Posts in Salary Negotiations
Anonymous User
New to Fishbowl?
Download the Fishbowl app to
unlock all discussions on Fishbowl.
unlock all discussions on Fishbowl.
Your initial ask was within the range for the role. But based on your interviews, they decided you belong in the lower end of that band. Every company rates the people they want to hire , so it’s not like “let’s hire the person and give them what they want “. So that’s why they proceeded. That’s a typical process.
Unless you get a written offer, you should continue interviewing at other places. They are waiting for approvals, response from other candidates , someone is on PTO or they have moved on from you- it could be any of that, for practical purposes there is nothing to do here except for you continuing your job hunt
That’s frustrating after putting in all that time and being upfront from the start. Unfortunately, some companies lowball to test resolve or due to internal budget surprises, even when they know your number. A week of silence isn’t unusual for approvals or coordination, but it can also mean they’ve moved on.
They gave you their answer, and your response should have been I accept, and then after you worked their for a while, if you kept interviewing behind the low balling backs you could have gotten a much higher dollar offer from their competitor
How has that renegotiated salary working out for you?
You’re at Deloitte….stick it out until you get an offer that matches your worth and value. Continue interviewing or passively looking…wishing you all the best.
It just happened to my wife, they were upfront with thier salary range and it was low. She told em what she wanted which was 10-15% more and still low. They put her through 10 hours of work, plus prep at home and then couldnt get approval. They are out here just hoping I guess. Id forget about them and continue my life. If they come back thats nice but if you cant live your life as intended with the salary ask, provided its reasonable, it just doesnt make sense to move. Salary isnt everything, but it is important especially if its considerably lower than what you need to meet current standard of living.
I recently experienced this. They knew my number from the beginning, and I had multiple interviews. They seemed really interested, but then they offered me way below. My number is firm due to childcare costs, so they wasted both our time.
I am no expert in this area so please don’t be unkind here, but I’ve worked for myself for most of my professional life, and have done exceptionally well. Unfortunately, I had a company in China copy my copyrighted and IP protected designs, and even stole my photos right out of my listings. I was not able to recoup the momentum as more and more Chinese were seeing my product sell and also began copying, so I interviewed and took a job with plenty of growth and it was with a Fortune 500 Company with a very good professional reputation.
I trained for 10 weeks and at the end of 10 weeks, I was told I would be hired as the AM at the store 3 miles from my home. This was in the interview. I was also offered a SALARY. As it turned out, I was paid hourly, expected to work a 44 hour work week as full time, and was asked to relocate to a very remote part of the state that would have left me completely landlocked up a mountain and causing me to have to sell my small farm, 4 acres and my horses. I was also doing the same job as the hourly workers, frequently expected to lift multiple 60-70 pound items throughout the day, I walked easily 5 miles per day in the store and everything I learned during the 10 weeks of training was completely a time waste as I never did any of the job duties I was hired for because it turns out that no one did those things in any of the retail stores.
The pay would have had to be doubled to even begin thinking about relocating for this job, as I had settled for a job that had growth and some prestige to it, but the person hiring me absolutely lied to me about almost every aspect of the job duties I would be doing. When I spoke to multiple people about what I was facing and dealing with, I was shocked to discover that many hiring personnel paint the job in a much rosier light than it actually is. As a very petite female, being asked to regularly move items that weighed 70+ pounds was ridiculous. That’s well over half my weight of 104. If I could have looked for a month, I could not have found a less suitable person for the job I was hired to do. Truth be told, the person who hired me was also my supervisor. I believe to this day that because I refused to relocate to the AM position way up the side of a mountain, where this company notoriously had trouble keeping personnel in that store, my supervisor was trying to make me quit, by giving me these tasks that weren’t even in my job description. Other professionals I spoke with told me that it’s extremely common to get hired to do a job, only for the job description to change once they get you to agree to come and work for them.
Is this true? Do jobs really diverge that drastically from the description in the job posting? Is it realistic for a company to expect someone who has only trained for a position but still has not had a chance to work in their role, to expect that person to relocate on their own dime and to a place 2 hours from where I was initially told I would work? How much money would a person logically expect to be making if they are expected to sell their home and move away from the only area they are familiar with? I simply cannot imagine being expected to uproot my life for the amount of money this company was paying me and the work they were having me do.
I’m only commenting on this post because this was the first time in decades I had worked for another company except my own and I can easily tell you that I like myself as a boss better than the man I was working for. He was having me put in a 10+ hour day at a job he could never have done if he was expected to. He was much too heavy and out of shape. I am a very small and petite adult and the lifting and carrying I had to do on that job caused me to suffer a terrible back injury, as a result of being hired to do one job and ending up doing a completely different job.
I also didn’t negotiate myself a better salary because I wasn’t sure how to do that. I was completely unprepared to work for a corporation that fed me lies and promises they never intended to keep and this is a company I promise you have all heard of before.
As I read about all the different people’s questions and workplace problems, it is very clear to me that corporations don’t care one bit about keeping their word or paying their employees a fair wage. These companies work very hard to get as much as they can squeeze out of you for the least amount of money they can possibly pay you. I learned a valuable lesson through all this: if you are a hard worker and you have a passion or talent for something, turn it into a job for yourself. Then you’ll see what it’s like to be paid your true worth, because when you work hard at your own business, you become more successful. It’s the very best way to earn what your true value is worth. At least it has always worked that way for me. I’ve started 3 businesses and I’ve always been in the black every single month and year from month 1, and I have made mid 6 figures doing something I’m good at and enjoy.
Thanks for all your comments. There are so many intelligent people here and I learn something every time I read the comments and questions. I forgot to say that this company took 2 months to hire me, from first to last interview, so I wouldn’t give up all hope yet. Companies don’t seem to be in a big hurry to onboard new people. I also don’t agree that it was wrong to expect to be paid what you are worth. You’ll never get what you don’t ask for. If the money isn’t enough to pay your bills and keep you in a comfortable financial position, it’s not the right job for you. Only you know what you need, monetarily.
This sort of happened to me. Except, they promised me a much hire number after my probtionary period. So I stuck it out. 3 months later, I get a $2 raise. $5 less than promised. I had a feeling so I continued to job hunt, and put my 2 weeks notice in less than a month later. And the company im with now, I told them I needed a certain number to leave, they gave me that over the phone, than when I received my offer letter, they added another 5k/yr on top of that plus a yearly 5k bonus, plus a company truck with gas and maintenance that I can use as a personal vehicle as well. It may have helped that I told my new company why I was leaving the old one. Dont play with my money!
Wow! So many unscrupulous people a d organizations in the world today. Good for you!