Your previous salary is none of their business. I had someone demand my salary expectations in an email two days ago, and I answered with a question about whom

Your previous salary is none of their business. I had someone demand my salary expectations in an email two days ago, and I answered with a question about whom I would be reporting to. I haven't heard back yet. Maybe they flushed me for "not following the rules." Fair enough. You do not want to deal with people like that. Bad clients are worse than no clients. And I'm saying that as someone who currently doesn't have full-time work, and is looking for it, and has a family to raise. Now, sometimes I have found that their maximum salary was beneath my minimum accepted value. They can stop wasting their time if they announce their salary upfront, but for some reason they won't do that. Their loss.