Salary negotiation when job hunting can be considered an entire art form that not every office worker can master. Asking for too high a salary may lead to being labeled as “delusional”, while asking too low is seen as lacking confidence and self-sabotaging.
However, the case of a young office lady expressing a desired salary of over 10 million right after graduation and then having the company proactively increase it by nearly 2 million is indeed rare.
It was thought that she would be thrilled with this fantastic treatment, but no, the conclusion of the story as told by her truly shocked many people. Here’s the detailed account:
“I have a secret question. Hello everyone, I am a recent graduate, and I have been working for a month now. At first, I interviewed at this company and passed. Then when the HR called to negotiate salary, since I hadn’t worked for any company during my college years, I wasn’t very clear about salary negotiation.
The HR asked what salary I wanted, and after discussing with a few friends, I said I wanted 13 million. Then she told me to wait while she reported to the manager and would get back to me later. The next day, she called back and offered me a salary of 14 million 9. I felt something was off. Can I ask why they increased my salary? It should have been reduced, right?
Secondly, after one month of working, I find the job very easy. I finish my work in half a day, then scroll through Facebook and go home. Is my salary appropriate, or is this considered normal? I find this job very boring. Should I switch jobs? Or should I spend the remaining time learning something new before switching? Thank you!”
The above story, filled with irony, after being shared in a group dedicated to discussing office life on social media, received a lot of attention from the community, especially from the “500 brothers and sisters” of office workers.
And as expected, with her peculiar mindset that could be described as contrary to the majority, the main character, the office lady, faced a barrage of strong reactions from netizens:
“Just quit, dear. High salary for easy work isn’t for you. Oh my, wanting more after getting the elephant, huh?”
“Look here, we have never seen such a spoiled girl. Just graduated, earning over ’10 million’, finishing work in half a day, what more could you ask for? I used to earn ‘4 million’ and worked like crazy, still had work left over.”
Surprisingly, in addition to comments like the ones above, many netizens snickered, suggesting that this story might just be… made up: “It must be made up just for fun, right?”, “I hope after reading this fabricated story, you will feel more confident in salary negotiation”, “Get up and go to work, dear, don’t keep dreaming”, “Did you do something naughty to imagine that?”, “Oh wow, money from companies isn’t easy to get, don’t daydream…”…