'I wasn't interested in taking a wage cut': Audacious recruiter guilt trips a prospective employee after offering him $6,000 less than his current wage

Who here works a full time job and is not interested in making any money? Nobody? No takers?! Exactly.  The majority of the workforce isn't driven by passion, work-ethic, or altruism– we're driven by cold, hard cash. Anyone who says otherwise is either delusional or a professional recruiter. Although usually head hunters like to swoon their prey with pretty words and shiny pay-days, sometimes there's that dime-in-a-dozen recruiter that has the audacity to lowball their prospective employees in an attempt to guilt them into taking a lower paying job. 

But who would accept a pay cut to change their entire career? Well, in this story, an overzealous recruiter showed just how far he was willing to push the limits of persuasion in order to get his own commission paid out. As a top employee at his company, u/Fortified_Armadillo thought he had his life all put together. His bills were paid, his job was predictable, and life was good, until one day he was contacted by a recruiter that was so desperate to make a cheap offer, OP's opinion of recruiters went straight down the drain– all because of a £5k ($6,073) undercut in wages. For the full details scroll down to enjoy this ridiculously true story from sparky Reddit users we know and love.

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