Engineer Is Fuming After The Hiring Team Changes His Promised Salary Of $40,000 To An $8/Hour Contract On The Interview Day

It's a well-known fact that the career world can be challenging and exhausting. Firstly, you spend ages studying and getting a qualification in your chosen profession. God forbid, halfway through, you realize that it's not something you truly want to do, so you jump into more debt while changing your path. The time comes, you finally graduate, and everything becomes progressively more concerning since it's your first time leaving the education system – therefore, you have to figure things out on your own.

Time flies by, and you've applied to dozens of companies. Finally, there's some experience on your checklist, however – you're married now, and the responsibilities have doubled in size, so you go out of your way to find a company that will offer decent pay. But then you bump into a rather unhealthy business that starts it off with a lie:

This is the story of Reddit user WaterFidec. He used the antiwork subreddit to share all the troubles he has faced while finding a job as a mechanical engineer. Now, the post received a "maybe fake, but we like it" tag – thus, we can't be absolutely sure that the story wasn't sugar-coated for entertainment purposes. Nevertheless, it received over 67K upvotes and almost 9K comments where people engaged in a fiery debate about the whole situation.

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The OP shared an odd story about how the organization that he potentially wanted to work for informed him about the yearly salary he would be making as a mechanical engineer. However, when he arrived to an interview, the pay was heavily cut, to say the least.

The OP starts out by explaining that he's a proud owner of an engineering degree and that one day, he received a phone call from the company that he presumably applied to. The hiring team explained to the OP that he would be making $40,000 yearly, and by the looks of it, he was delighted about the potential offer.

The interview day came; however, the team ended up having completely different numbers in their proposal. It was said that the contract would start at $8 for the duration of 9 months. And then eventually, they might consider those $40,000.

Nevertheless, OP connected the dots and realized that when they were previously discussing the pay, the hiring team mentioned a project that would last approximately from 8 to 9 months.

Naturally the OP asked the interviewers if the contract was based purely on that project, to which he received an awkward silence and a crystal clear lie.

The OP clearly didn't like the fact that he was lied to straight to his face, so he decided to forwardly ask the hiring team if they would be able to survive on $8 an hour. Moreover, he made sure to add that they'd also be paying him for his experience and skills – not only for the work.

But one of the interviewers decided to voice his concerns and reminisce about his past with chicken eggs, which could only be assumed was done to somehow persuade the OP into accepting the offer. To that the OP wondered if the man was implying that him designing for their company would be worth only a few bucks more than getting chickens' waste off of their eggs.

After getting kicked out of the interview, our OP started to question his whole reality. He revealed that he and his wife were in an agreement to never have kids, purely because of how expensive everything is.

He also shared how unbelievably overpriced mobile homes are, as his mother-in-law's costs quarter of a million and requires $45,000 as a down payment.

After contemplating about life and its expenses, the OP began thinking that if the engineering degree and a bunch of loans don't actually matter in the career world – maybe he would get experience at a fast food restaurant, since the starting pay is a whole dollar more than at the engineering company.

Things like that happen, as you never truly know if years of studying will pay off or if you'll end up like our OP. Moreover, it's an everyday practice, where companies ask for years and years of experience in order for you to be able to apply to a certain position, and people that just graduated have a hard time finding jobs that relate to their degrees which quite often leads them to similar stories.

What do you think about this situation?