Have you ever bought your way into a job?

[Carlton Banks]

Or bribed. Made a low ball offer? I feel like social media and people in general don't talk about the other ways of getting your foot in the door at places. Yeah, a 4 year degree gets you far... But so does asking and making sacrifices

 

[Mike809]

bought your way into a job?
only pyramid schemes make you buy yourself into employment lol.

 

[Carlton Banks]

bought your way into a job?
only pyramid schemes make you buy yourself into employment lol.

I'm saying like you low balled the initial offer. A job that pays 80k you took for 40k purposely for your lack of experience

 

[L&HH]

I'm saying like you low balled the initial offer. A job that pays 80k you took for 40k purposely for your lack of experience

You shouldn’t do this especially if it’s government. They already have your job budgeted out and it’s not like you’d be “saving them money”. Cause most departmental budgets are use it or lose it. As in the main company gives that department a Budget to hire per position. So not paying that $40k doesn’t mean they can go and spend that money elsewhere. Maybe this might work at a small private company with fewer employees but in a situation like that you’re going to be working to a lot and going wish you ain’t lowball yourself like that. And if the position calls for someone making $80k and they had an $80k budget yet chose to hire someone for $40k, then I guarantee you that ain’t a company you want to work for. Because it means either 1. They had $80k to hire someone of quality but chose to hire someone less qualified or 2. They do see your quality but allowed you to low ball yourself that bad. Either way that ain’t the kind of management I’d be looking to work for. Lastly most of these jobs have pretty tight hiring standards of what they want (years experience, degree, certifications, etc) and if you’re lacking in those standards you won’t even make it to interview before you negotiate.

With that said nobody knows your specific situation but you and if you really need a job that bad and that’s how you feel you gotta get it then don’t let my words stop you from supporting yourself. But I just don’t think it’s going to work out like you think.

 

[SupaDupaFresh]

You shouldn’t do this especially if it’s government. They already have your job budgeted out and it’s not like you’d be “saving them money”. Cause most departmental budgets are use it or lose it. As in the main company gives that department a Budget to hire per position. So not paying that $40k doesn’t mean they can go and spend that money elsewhere. Maybe this might work at a small private company with fewer employees but in a situation like that you’re going to be working to a lot and going wish you ain’t lowball yourself like that. And if the position calls for someone making $80k and they had an $80k budget yet chose to hire someone for $40k, then I guarantee you that ain’t a company you want to work for. Because it means either 1. They had $80k to hire someone of quality but chose to hire someone less qualified or 2. They do see your quality but allowed you to low ball yourself that bad. Either way that ain’t the kind of management I’d be looking to work for. Lastly most of these jobs have pretty tight hiring standards of what they want (years experience, degree, certifications, etc) and if you’re lacking in those standards you won’t even make it to interview before you negotiate.

With that said nobody knows your specific situation but you and if you really need a job that bad and that’s how you feel you gotta get it then don’t let my words stop you from supporting yourself. But I just don’t think it’s going to work out like you think.

In a nutshell it behooves you to avoid any company that practices sleazy hiring practices like what OP has in mind.

Yeah, any company that would take a low ball deal for a highly paid position is a company that doesn't give one shyt about the quality of their product, morale, or their work environment

OP, the closest experience I had to that was when I was just starting my career and took an "internship" for an FM radio station here in NYC. I was basically just free labor. There was no paperwork, no terms of the internship, no college credits rewarded. It was a completely off the book "internship."

Mind you, I had technical skills that none of their staff had--video editing and processing--and the statiob was looking for at the time, so eventually they offered me a full time position. 5 days a week. 10 hours a day. Im dead fukkin serious.

I should've easily been making 50k-60k bare minimum at the time doing what I was doing. This fool offered me $10/hour knowing this is outrageously low pay for what I'm doing and even my age (was 21 at the time). But because I was young, eager, never negotiated salary one-on-one before, living with my parents, and just didn't know, I took the pay right away. This didn't stop them from eventually laying me off in less than a year actually. And as breh up here said, it was a horrible employer that was horribly managed and doing all types of shady nonsense.

The station's owner was a total self hating c00n snake who underpayed everyone, treated his white staffers like geniuses and payed them more than everyone else just cus they know how to edit a fukking flyer template on Photoshop, meanwhile treating the (black) DJs and engineers like shyt. And he pretended to be this proud black man of his community on the air and in public, then will sit with white, Jewish lawyers in his office telling them how ignorant and easily manipulated black folks are. It was horrible.

Can't say I regret a thing tho. Humble beginnings from where I'm at today.

 

[L&HH]

You shouldn’t do this especially if it’s government. They already have your job budgeted out and it’s not like you’d be “saving them money”. Cause most departmental budgets are use it or lose it. As in the main company gives that department a Budget to hire per position. So not paying that $40k doesn’t mean they can go and spend that money elsewhere. Maybe this might work at a small private company with fewer employees but in a situation like that you’re going to be working to a lot and going wish you ain’t lowball yourself like that. And if the position calls for someone making $80k and they had an $80k budget yet chose to hire someone for $40k, then I guarantee you that ain’t a company you want to work for. Because it means either 1. They had $80k to hire someone of quality but chose to hire someone less qualified or 2. They do see your quality but allowed you to low ball yourself that bad. Either way that ain’t the kind of management I’d be looking to work for. Lastly most of these jobs have pretty tight hiring standards of what they want (years experience, degree, certifications, etc) and if you’re lacking in those standards you won’t even make it to interview before you negotiate.

With that said nobody knows your specific situation but you and if you really need a job that bad and that’s how you feel you gotta get it then don’t let my words stop you from supporting yourself. But I just don’t think it’s going to work out like you think.

Also definitely don’t do this if you’re negotiating with an external recruiting company. That company has already been given a budget for your position. And all they can do is get you an interview with the company that’s hiring but they can’t force those ppl to hire you. And the ppl you’re interviewing with don’t know you just lowballed yourself to your recruiter for an interview so that lowball won’t even factor into that final hiring decision.