'[I'm] not playing their games': Employee quits 2 hours before his first shift after getting lowballed on his salary offer by a swindling supervisor

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    I quit two hours before I was supposed to show up to my first day... Quitting
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    ...because all weekend long, I couldn't sit with the feeling that the current manager quoted me $17/hour, and when the offer letter arrived, I was quoted $15/hour. I
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    realized quickly that the manager's words were not binding and that I would have no choice but to sign the offer if I wanted the job. I signed the offer, completed all the onboarding
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    paperwork, and then quit two hours before my first shift this morning. Why? Because I hadn't even started the job and the company already was
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    low-balling me into submission. Eff that. Why does anyone work anymore? Companies truly do not give about us. two
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    LadyLektra Job did this to me before. Super gaslighted me into thinking I made up the original offer. Then when I got promoted to a manager position there we were interviewing other assistants and I watched my boss laugh and say "fell for it" after doing the same thing to someone else. Felt great to leave when I finally found another gig.
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    Pepperoni Nippys Lmao how is that a "gotcha" moment. They lied why wouldn't the candidate believe them? F**ing Morons
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    Sjalabais WoWS What kind of disgustingly tar- tainted soul do you need to have to act like that manager? This person also was a kid at some point...then something went horribly wrong.
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    Sologretto2 You had another option. You could have simply responded that there was an error in the paperwork and the $17/hr you were originally quoted was set to $15. If you wanted to play hardball
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    you could have said that this broke trust and that now you're only willing to work for $18/hr in order to be willing to risk attempting to rebuild trust instead of moving on with your search.
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    Remember... In negotiations the party most willing to walk away has the most power. In the future when you're willing to walk use that power to negotiate and watch the dark magick do it's thing...
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    poohdaddy17 Good companies don't make that error. The negotiations were over. They verbally agreed on 17, and the offer letter came back with 15. If he were buying a car, he we wouldn't let that slide. He shouldn't let it slide here. He was right to walk.
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    telemon5 Most of the time, yeah, that's not going to go back up to 17/hr. But OP is never going to know if this was an actual mistake that could have been rectified because they walked away. By all means, I think they should have expected that they were purposefully being screwed over, but not pushing back was a mistake in my book.
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    av3 I have had HR people enter pay rates incorrectly multiple times over my career, and not by some sneaky amount where it wouldn't get caught. No HR person is going, "Let's cut his pay by $20K/year and see if he notices."
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    stinkstankstunkiii I did the same, three times this year. I don't believe it was done an accident. Interviewers / managers offer one thing, recruiters another- then you may be able to negotiate if you're lucky. I was not.
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    Notorious GIZ I had something similar happen. Worked for $55k, got an offer from another company for $55k with the promise to go up to $65k by year's end. Offer letter comes and there's no mention of the increase to $65k. Declined the offer immediately, ended up at $65k by the end of the year at my then-current job anyway. If it's not in writing it's not real.
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    tectail Company that I worked at did this to me but even worse. HR manager said that after training would be making mid 20s. I get the offer letter on first day of working and it said $18/hr after the 2 years of training at $15/hr (was expecting that part). I discussed with them the next day and walked out, not playing their games.

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