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tripped up

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Once again, my naïve nature has caught up with me.

I went to my interview with EDS, and they presented an offer that was way off the terms we discussed. The pay they were proposing was a 25% discount over the terms we'd agreed upon back in the Autumn. Factoring in the cost of living differential with Toronto, it's actually a substantial pay cut over what I'm earning now.

For the life of me, I can't understand why they would do this after I went through all of the effort of getting back to this country. Maybe because they can! I've been commenting in this journal about needing stability but by gum this ain't it. I'm not without sources of information on doing business in this country, and they've told me that I'd been given a "Japanese yes" before; a convenient answer that resolved an uncomfortable situation when I'd gone in to negotiate earlier. Not sure how I made them uncomfortable when they'd outnumbered me four to one, but maybe there's something to it.

I'm now looking at my options. Happily, I might seriously have one real alternative.