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This means as an applicant, if you ask for a salary range, you're creating a legal compulsion on them to give you one. This is an act of aggression and immoral
by SamReidHughes 9y ago
This means as an applicant, if you ask for a salary range, you're creating a legal compulsion on them to give you one. This is an act of aggression and immoral. First you should ask if they would have been willing to give a salary range if asked and if it wasn't legally required. Then, only if they say yes, is it moral to ask for the salary range.
- perl4ever 9y agoIf that's an act of aggression and thus immoral, what is it when an online job application form requires you to enter your salary expectation before submitting (outside California)?
- SamReidHughes 9y agoYou don't have to answer it. You're free to leave that field blank or not apply for the job.
- perl4ever 9y agoWell, I'm supposing that the form cannot be submitted with a blank field or textual comment, because it's programmed that way. Assuming that, is it then aggression/immoral?
- SamReidHughes 9y agoI already covered that case.
- perl4ever 9y agoI don't exactly see the relationship you may, between being free to disengage from a situation and being (or not being) aggressed against. It seems like you think they are related in a certain way you didn't make explicit. Are they mutually exclusive to you?
- SamReidHughes 9y agoThe employer is not free to disengage from the situation. They still have to tell the applicant. (Edit: and if they were free to cut off contact, it's still an imposition on them by the state that you're participating in.)
- derekp7 9y agoAnd if an employer doesn't want to provide a salary range, they are free not to hire any candidates. The same sauce is equally tasty for both the goose and the gander.
- SamReidHughes 9y agoYou're just choosing a different set of moral rules. That's OK -- I'm not expecting everybody to have the same I follow. You could just state that outright instead of making a clever twist of words about it.
- perl4ever 9y agoLevering a set of moral rules inherently leads to immorality. You can do what is right whether or not it is according to the rules, so the only thing that rules enable you to justify that you couldn't otherwise, are the things that are in fact wrong. I am not a Christian, but the bit about "Ye shall know them by their fruits" I think is genuine wisdom.