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Worker in blue coveralls smiling in a workshop, like he's satisfied, as shown by a model.
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I'm a union electrician. I started going to maintenance interviews just to make employers offering low wages waste their own time.
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Electrician in a hard hat smiling confidently in a workshop, as shown by a model.
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There is something genuinely poetic about a guy with serious credentials walking into these interviews, sailing through them, and then declining the offer with a note explaining exactly what the job should actually pay. He is not being cruel. He is providing market research. The companies just do not like the findings
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Smiling electrician holding a large wrench in a workshop as shown by a model.
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The job listing that asks for troubleshooting, controls, service work, installs, code knowledge, and machinery experience is its own comedy genre at this point. Every field has a version of it. The ask is essentially for someone who has mastered several overlapping careers, ideally with a decade of experience, and the compensation listed is what a starting retail position pays. The audacity is not even hidden. It is right there in the posting, formatted in bullet points.
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What makes this particular form of protest work is that it costs the company something real. Interview pipelines take time, coordinator hours, hiring manager schedules, and HR bandwidth. Every time someone qualified walks through the process and walks back out with a note about doubling the salary, that is a measurable waste of resources. Enough of those and someone in accounting starts asking questions.
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The irritated HR emails are the best part. The people most offended by this are the ones who built the system that made it necessary, which is a level of irony that does not require any additional commentary.
Pay what the job is worth and the problem solves itself immediately.
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