Trying to find a new job is exhausting, essentially becoming a full-time job itself—which can make the prospect of finding a new job seem impossible when you're trying to escape your current terrible one. Writing cover letters for jobs you never hear back from, sitting multiple interviews only to be ghosted, and being intentionally misled about a job you've interviewed for all can be huge wastes of time, often wasting weeks of hard work and dashing hopes. On top of that, you now have to be incredibly wary of red flags that the job isn't a job at all, but rather part of some MLM scheme or a straight-up scam.
For one, when interviewing, you should always be wary of the "walk back" as a manipulation tactic. I don't know what this is actually called, but it's often used in sales and scams. The seller starts by offering something acceptable and slowly changes the terms of the deal to something that might have been unacceptable to start with but is now reluctantly accepted due to the sunk cost of invested time. Consecutive slight alterations to figures or terms should always raise red flags, and if something doesn't seem right, you should always trust your gut instinct, just as this job-seeker did.
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