Woman asks for double the offered salary after employer fails to mention a key detail about the job

Jobseeking in the current economy is challenging. It becomes harder when the employer decides to withhold crucial information from job applicants until the last minute. u/SamanathaTheGreat appeared on the Reddit community to share her experience with a job interview where the employer made a last-minute revelation. In the post's caption, the woman mentioned how she went for the interview and realized that the company wants her to travel 75% of the time. Having decades of experience in her field, she was looking for a job with less stress.

She revealed that she doesn't have a husband or kids. Neither does she live in a big house or make car payments. But then, things changed when she appeared for the interview. "So, cut to the interview. I can tell they love my qualifications, but they're trying their best to downplay them so they don't have to pay me nearly what I'm worth," the woman mentioned in her post. "Then they explain that it's almost all international travel. I explain to them that I am fine with that, but I know that can be stressful and it means your pay rate per hour falls to almost nothing. So I explained I would require double what their max listed salary for the position was."

The employer appeared to be shocked and told the woman that she was being unreasonable. They even went as far as to tell her that the only thing she cared about was money. "I said, 'I care about other things as well, but since you did not tell me that this was 75% travel until we were almost done with the interview, I now have no reason to believe that you are being honest with me about anything else regarding this position or this company,'" she continued in her post. One of the employers in the interview session told her they don't bring up the topic of international travel at the beginning because job seekers tend to lose their interest upon learning that bit of information.

The woman did not budge from her point and told the employers that "it was a lovely way to justify lying so that they can sleep at night." All they were doing was bringing hopeful people in and then changing the deal about the job by the end of the interview. The employers had nothing more to say, so they informed the woman that they would get back to her and the interview ended. "Even at that pay rate, I'm a good deal and they know it. What they don't know is that I would just take the job for the free travel and do a half-ass job of it, then retire after a year or so," the woman concluded. It sparked a discussion in the Reddit community as many people came forward to share their experience with appearing for job interviews.

u/farmer_palmer wrote, "I had the exact same done to me. They would only offer 7% over what I was paid now. I pointed out that I did a fixed 38 hr/week and slept in my own bed every night. For the extra hours traveling they expected, I'd be better off working those hours stacking shelves in Tesco. More money and still sleeping in my bed." u/teksean wondered, "Why do companies go on with this silly pretense that we don't work for the money just to lowball us? I think we should just start laughing in interviews when they try that ploy. They proved right at the start they can't be trusted." u/Apprehensive-War8915 added, "Travel is not a vacation, especially in heavy engineering. Any place I had to travel was completely isolated from any civilization. You had to drive two hours to get to a place that can be called a town."