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'Totally honest', as in, lie through your teeth, repeatedly?

• it_luddite 11y ago
  It's not lying if you're careful how you respond to their question on salary. I always respond with my compensation is $X, where X is my previous year's salary, bonus, and cash value of PTO and other benefits.
  • charlesdm 11y ago
    But he was lying. That's different. What you're making is irrelevant, and if it is for them (i.e. the company you're interviewing at is making an actual problem of not knowing), then you don't want to work there. What you're looking to make is much more relevant.
• hoppi 11y ago
  'Totally honest' about lying and what was done to achieve a higher salary.
• erikb 11y ago
  It's not really lying to make the numbers look bigger. It's what everybody does. The guy on the other side of the table will also tell you believable smaller numbers than what he really has in his spreadsheets.
  • fiatjaf 11y ago
    So if everybody lies it is not lies anymore. Interesting.
    • erikb 11y ago
      Look, if you make $73,327.54/year do you say you make $73,327.54/year or do you say you make $75k/year?
      • aggieben 11y ago
        No, you don't. If you want to stick with the $75k number, then you say "I make just under $75k". If you want to round, you say "I make $73k".
• johanneskanybal 11y ago
  no, as in honest disclosure of how he has negotiated in the past (by lying through his teeth, repeatedly). Title is a bit misleading, granted.