RE: Salary (Was Newbie/Tight Market)

[Maggie Secara <MSecara -at- NILS -dot- COM>]

Factoring in your benefits isn't lying.  But early this year I got severly
low-balled when the company I interviewed with presumed the unadorned salary
I quoted (which was true) included benefits, which it didn't.  The offer was
not only less than I had been making, but less than the previous salary.  (I
should have taken it, dammit.)

I also don't think "verifying" includes saying "No, it was $80,000."  That
would be the same as answering the direct question "How much did you pay
him?" Humans being human, I also don't see why the person asking would just
hang up then without saying something like "Perhaps that includes benefits
package?"

Who says being a writer of fiction is of no use in this business?  Nothing
like being able to imagine complete dialog and character motivation. ;-)




Maggie Secara
NILS Publishing Company
(818) 734-3570

-----Original Message-----
From: bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com [mailto:bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:08 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Salary (Was Newbie/Tight Market)


At most companies, lying on your application is immediate cause for
termination if they ever find out.


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