Reply #63: Just read your response over again... [View All]

[lapfog_1]

And yes, they won't hire me at any salary.

Because they can see my salary history. So the thought process is "we can hire two people from India here on H1-B visas for what he was making in his last job... if we hire him for less he will be unhappy and looking for another job so it's better to simply not make him the offer". It doesn't matter if I say "Sure, pay me 2/3rds of what I was making, I'll be happy with that, or even 1/2.

And making up numbers simply won't work either, because salary information is so easy to come by... not to mention that telling a lie to a prospective employer isn't a good way to establish trust (or get a job offer).

Not to mention that now that I'm an "older" (I just turned 50), they start making calculations based on my prospective length of time with the company and my health care costs (not that I have any current problems, but I did have heart surgery years ago to correct a birth defect).

So yeah, not at any salary.

I'm not old enough to retire or start working as a greeter at Walmart, but I'm too old to be employed at high tech company (apparently).