'I officially resigned': Company approaches contractor they ghosted with generous offer of a 50% lower rate

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Apr 3, 2023 6:00 PM EDT

With more experience comes more opportunities and better pay… Unless you're a contractor, who was ghosted by a client at the start of the pandemic that has suddenly rematerialized and requested your services once again. You might expect that you'd be receiving at least the rate that you were on previously—although it might be foolish to make this assumption without getting it in writing—and return to working at that rate. 

That's what happened when this healthcare contractor, u/Kind-Designer-5763, returned to working with an old client. They were surprised when they came to find that they would be expected to work at a lower rate. Not a slightly lower rate either. The client wanted them to work for 50% of their previous compensation. After some attempts to explain the issues with this to the front office staff, the contractor gave up and resigned from working for the company for good. I think it's important that we remember Hanlon's razor here when regarding the client: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity—or, in this case, apathy. 

Afterward, they took the Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit community to share their experience, receiving support from readers who condemned the client's actions. 

Keep reading to see some screenshots of the thread that was posted to the popular Reddit sub; visit the attribution links for the original thread. For more, check out this interview that went sideways when the company revealed that successful candidates would have to pay them $40,000 if they missed one day of training. 

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