'I wasn't interested in taking a wage cut': Audacious recruiter guilt trips a prospective employee after offering him $6,000 less than his current wage

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Oct 21, 2023 1:00 PM EDT

Who here works a full time job and is not interested in making any money? Nobody? No takers?! Exactly.  The majority of the workforce isn't driven by passion, work-ethic, or altruism– we're driven by cold, hard cash. Anyone who says otherwise is either delusional or a professional recruiter. Although usually head hunters like to swoon their prey with pretty words and shiny pay-days, sometimes there's that dime-in-a-dozen recruiter that has the audacity to lowball their prospective employees in an attempt to guilt them into taking a lower paying job. 

But who would accept a pay cut to change their entire career? Well, in this story, an overzealous recruiter showed just how far he was willing to push the limits of persuasion in order to get his own commission paid out. As a top employee at his company, u/Fortified_Armadillo thought he had his life all put together. His bills were paid, his job was predictable, and life was good, until one day he was contacted by a recruiter that was so desperate to make a cheap offer, OP's opinion of recruiters went straight down the drain– all because of a £5k ($6,073) undercut in wages. For the full details scroll down to enjoy this ridiculously true story from sparky Reddit users we know and love.

For more tales from the workplace, check out this story of a guy who gets fired by his nepo-baby boss, leaving behind a boobytrap of rotting garbage over the weekend as revenge.

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    Font - r/antiwork. Posted by u/Fortified_Armadillo 16 hours ago Recruiter suggested to me that money isn't that important. Got a message from a recruiter yesterday asking if I would be
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    Font - interested in a job vacancy they had. I told him that the wages they were offering are over £5k a year less than I get now and I wasn't interested in taking a wage cut with the whole cost of living thing going on.
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    Font - He asked me if I really considered wages to be that important and pointed out that the job he was offering works 4 day weeks. I told him to keep me on file if anything else comes up.
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    Rectangle - PaulTR88 16 hr. ago I had a recruiter with Uber once tell me that they're more interested in hiring people that are interested in complex challenges instead
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    Font - of money when I asked what the salary was. Recruiters tend to just be an arm of HR that isn't there for you, so take it with a grain of salt :)
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    Facial expression - RahulRedditor 16 hr. ago Finding workers not interested in money is a complex challenge
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    Rectangle - BurntPoptart 15 hr. ago Seems like an oxymoron. Who is working and not interested in money?
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    Font - mike0sd 14 hr. ago And to add to that- this theoretical candidate is not interested in money AND wants to take on a company's "complex challenges" 92 Reply Share wearrggh138 10 hr. ago Which further translates to understaffed and overworked
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    Rectangle - Zeebird95 10 hr. ago Typically the people who don't care about the money, don't care about the money because they already have it
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    Facial expression - mrbad31 12 hr. ago .....I work for a pizza party every other friday. No need to ever pay me.
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    Font - hexdeedeedee 8 hr. ago You're working for peanuts. I got pizza Fridays AND casual mondays 49 B ABrainwashed365. 3 hr. ago Reply Share D Look at you Mr FancyPants. Making all of us feel so envious!
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    Font - manatwork01 - 54 min. ago When they say it is 5k less than I currently make and get uppity about pay I ask them if they will cover it since they don't think money is so important. Shuts them up real fast.
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    Font - Javier CakeAndEdith2 14 hr. ago Say you don't care about money either. You want a meaningful stake in your employer so you can both benefit from your employment there without worrying about money. And then come up with a % of the company that is double what you'd like to actually get paid.
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    Font - Catch Me If You Can09. 15 hr. ago "I'm sorry but my salary minimum is still regardless of 4 day work week. The decreased work week is to support a better work life balance not decrease my salary. And frankly the WHOLE reason the working class is even a thing is because we are being paid to be. So yes money IS a HUGE factor in my WORK life."
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    Plant - xboxwirelessmic 15 hr. ago Ask him to make up the difference from his own money then ask him the same question when he inevitably says vot
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    Font - Old MetalHead 15 hr. ago Since wages aren't that important, why is he trying so hard to recruit you? Maybe he can cover the £5k shortfall since it's not important to him.
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    Font - Neuromonada 4 hr. ago Anybody hears next time money isn't important should ask for 20k more and hear their reasoning Imao.
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    Font - rickythe_rapTor. 16 hr. ago Money is important, but a 4 day work week would be nice 377 Reply Share MathematicianBulky40 16 hr. ago How about a 4 day week at the same pay? 248 Reply Share rickythe_rapTor 16 hr. ago Take that offer
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    Font - tehjoz 15 hr. ago "I consider the ability to keep a roof over my head of critical importance when deciding on whether a potential role might be a good fit for me"
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    Font - KevinAnniPadda 14 hr. ago If they think that money isn't that important, then they shouldn't have any trouble giving you more 34 Reply Share No_Vegetable7280 14 hr. ago This is the only right answer
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    Font - Psycosilly 15 hr. ago If money isn't that important why doesn't the recruiter offer to slash his fee so they can offer you more? 6 Reply Share Pour_Me_Another_. 14 hr. ago Guess they don't have bills to pay lol
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    Font - Candid-Business7213 15 hr. ago If your CEO had to take a pay cut... would he think money was not important enough to take the cut so the workers of the business could not live pay check to pay check?
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    Font - iolmao 5 hr. ago Money is not important for those who, in a way or another, has it.
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    Hand - "The recruiter suggested to me that money isn't important."
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