Job Seeker Shares How A Recruiter Got Mad At Their Salary Expectations & The Internet Is Angry

You know the drill - recruiters call us, we take through our work experience, reveal our salary expectations, and more often than not, never hear from them again. However, this person's experience was a little harsh when they received a call from a recruiter.

A Reddit user took to the blogging platform to share their experience when a recruiter called them for a job. The post titled, "Had a recruiter contact me for a job and when I told them my desired salary and expectations, they got actually mad at me!" will make you wonder why someone would get mad at a person for expressing their salary expectation.

"So, I'm not job searching right now, but I was about 6months ago so I still have my resume up on some job sites. I like to get alerts for jobs in my field just to see what's out there," reads the post.

The person explains that they hop from job to job but are part of a union.

"I make between 90-120k a year. Through my union I have (as long as I'm working steadily) 100% paid for health insurance, a 401k, and a pension plan. I'm pretty happy with what I do, the only thing is it can be a bit unnerving hoping job to job so I keep my eyes open for something corporate and more stable in my field," writes the Reddit user.

The user further explained that the recruiter called them from a hiring site they are a member of - the job was a 9-5 in line with the user's skills.

"She emailed me saying she was very interested in speaking to me and would like to interview me. After some back and forth the job sounded interesting enough to at least interview for. (I also went through the motions of making sure it wasn't a scam). But before we went that far I asked about pay scale."

"She responded with one of my biggest pet peeves, "well what is your expected salary for such a role?." Such a shitty way to either try and underpay someone who doesn't know how to ask for more or to pressure a person who knows their worth into taking less."

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"Since I don't need this job and could give 2 fs I just tell her bluntly "Right now I make around 100k/yr with a 401k and pension plan. Also, my insurance premiums are 100% covered at no cost to me. So you'd have to offer me better in some way for me to have any desire to interview for the role."

Turns out, the recruiter's response was far from ideal. The Reddit user mentioned that even though these are not the exact words used by the recruiter, it covers the gist of it.

"That is way out of our budget for this role and quite frankly an unreasonable expectation. We are no longer interested in you as a candidate for making such demands. For future endeavours, I recommend you keep yourself more appealing to prospective employers by reducing your standards to something more in line with your skills. You will never find work with this attitude."

The user ended the post with, "It's not in your budget fine, but don't tell me what I am and am not worth."

People took to the comments section to express their thoughts on this bizarre incident.

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