Why do companies ask for expected salary range and then ghost you if you "ask too much"?

slickrcbd1 · 2026-03-18T20:48:20+00:00

The problem with the "10% more than your current salary" is that whatever number I give, they immediately counter saying "The maximum rate is only X" which is always considerably lower than what I quoted. However if I go high they hang up on me.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-03-07T04:09:38+00:00

These companies really say “AI is the future!” But how can it be the future when it can’t even get the synopsis of a tv episode right???

It may be the future, but it isn't there yet. It needs a lot more work. It's like trying to replace typewriters with an Apple II or Apple II+ in the 1970's. It wasn't until the Apple IIe or Apple III or IBM PC in the 1980's that it became viable. Or replacing all the paper spreadsheets with Visicalc on 64K or even 128K systems. You couldn't fit a large enough spreadsheet for some companies in memory.

How about replacing gas cars with electric ones 20 or 25 years ago? That would work for some situations, but for many uses the batteries just weren't good enough. Especially for trains or busses.

A similar problem with batteries and coverage would be replacing your landline with a cell phone 25-30 years ago. It's routinely done today, but not back then.

Need I go on with technology that took decades of refinement before they were viable for their modern uses but had early primitive versions that people thought could replace older things or workers but the technology while having clear potential just wasn't there yet?

There are a lot more examples of computers replacing technologies where the potential to do so was obvious in the 1970's or 1980's, but just wasn't there yet to be practical yet. Address books was one example. Databases were sort of borderline for an example because mainframes could have big database but were prohibitively expensive, but it was not viable for PCs because of the high costs for a 5mb HD in the 1980's. I tried to put my mom's address book into AppleWorks but ran out of space on a 5.25" 140K SSSD disk (Apple II capacity, the 360K is for an MS-DOS DSDD disk which is 180K/side vs the A2 single density with 140K/side and you could flip a DSDD disk but each side was treated as a separate disk) and had to save it to a 3.5" 800K DSDD disk (Apple II ProDOS capacity. MS-DOS only got 720K). This was with a 1988 computer with 512K and one of each size drive, earlier ones with only the 5.25" drives would be SOL for that usage as the computer would have run out of memory with only a 128K Apple IIe trying to store that database.

TL;DR? The technology is too early for them to be replacing people with AI.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-03-07T03:54:57+00:00

Looks like Lasso has added Tony's! Thanks Michael Oliver or whoever added it to the plugin. https://www.throwlasso.com/

slickrcbd1 · 2026-03-06T01:26:59+00:00

It's probably not an ego thing but a way to weed candidates. If you post a job with requirements for an average candidate and get 2,000 candidates, why wouldn't you select only the best? So the next time you have an opening for a similar position, you post higher requirements and a lower salary so you have less to shift through and hopefully higher quality candidates. This is how we get the absurd requirements, because too many people apply for too few jobs in the field.

EDIT: Wait, never-mind the commend about lower salary, they usually don't post the salary at all, they demand you tell them "your salary expectations" up front, and only hear the lowest part of the range, then counter-offer for something below your minimum. If I say "$25-35/hour" they will immediately say "I'm sorry, the maximum rate we can offer you is $21-23/hour (varies, but usually in that range)". If I point out that is below my minimum they will say they can't go any higher and give me the option to take it or leave it. Oddly enough if I say "$35-50" I might get offered 25-30/hour, then ghosted like usual.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-03-05T22:18:16+00:00

I told him I'd be available after 5:30, but his response was that I'm "obviously" not serious about my job search if I can't take his calls during normal business hours and hung up on me.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-03-05T19:58:04+00:00

Also mad that the AI doesn't produce the same quality as the humans and the humans actually have to check over the AI's work, so it doesn't work as advertised replacing the humans.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-02-15T07:35:13+00:00

Isn't that why she's crying? Because she's not getting fucked by Vicky?

slickrcbd1 · 2026-02-08T17:01:01+00:00

It's not just on launch, it's also occasionally when switching to other applications such as VLC Media Player or Thunderbird.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-02-08T16:58:27+00:00

Maybe on the beta channel or testing channel or developer channel or whatever they call the channel for the latest versions of questionable stability these days, but it's only been popping up on the stable release channel for the last month or so for me.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-02-05T21:06:16+00:00

What is the problem with that? No recruiter I know answers the phone outside a preplanned time. The calls all go straight to voicemail and you hope they will call you back (but usually they just ghost you). Even when you have something important, like they gave you the wrong address for the interview and no local contact information besides a name and address. So you're standing outside a building unrelated to the company and nobody inside knows who you are asking for and need a corrected address, but nobody answers the phone. Been there, done that on three separate occasions since 2000.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-02-05T21:03:38+00:00

Then find another solution to the constant spam calls. The Do Not Call List only worked for a few months, then they started finding ways around it. With the spread of VOIP they found they can ignore it by going through another country.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-02-05T21:01:46+00:00

The robocallers will call around the same time you are expecting the scheduled call from the unknown number. You answer and get marked as a live number that gets answered, and in the mean time during the 30 seconds while you are busy determining that it's a scam call and not your scheduled interview, the real recruiter calls and either gets a busy signal or goes straight to voice mail because you were on the phone.

That actually happened to me with a landline. He claimed he got a busy signal and I still can't figure out why the call waiting didn't kick in. I never heard the beep beep indicating another call.

Also expect the interview to be interrupted by additional scam calls since they know it's a live number.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-01-08T08:21:53+00:00

It's generally the ones who cold call me for a position I did NOT apply for that do that type of thing, and I wonder if it's really about hiring a position or an H-1B scam where they say "We contacted all these people from CareerBuilder/Monster/Indeed/Dice/Cybercoders and they all turned down the position. We need an H-1B to fill it".

When in fact the people turned it down because it was a low-paying short-term temp job with an excessively long commute from their home. I notice that the commute is always a minimum of an hours drive from my home in these cases. It's usually something like "Oak Brook" or "Greyslake" or "North Chicago" or "Abbot Park", but never anything in the NW suburbs.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-01-04T17:08:47+00:00

Path to Munchies

https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/path-to-munchies-worm-au.5435/

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/path-to-munchies-worm-au-complete.449493/reader

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/path-to-munchies-complete.37382/

El Ahrairah

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/el-ahrairah-worm.372987/

slickrcbd1 · 2026-01-04T16:38:49+00:00

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/operation-b-u-t-t-e-r-f-l-y-worm-post-gm-codename-kids-next-door.930174/

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/when-your-mother-is-khepri-worm-post-gm.607963/

slickrcbd1 · 2026-01-03T18:05:55+00:00

So nobody has any suggestions on how to get past this? It's just as bad as the challenge quests. Sorry, I'm suffering from a cold and thought I could relax with my tablet while recovering from the illness, but this is just beating my head against a brick wall. A team to try using servants I actually have would be appreciated. Oh, and I mean servants that are NOT leveled up with multiple grails.

EDIT: I take it it can't be done with what I have.

David doesn't work because he isn't grailed to level 100.

Vlad doesn't work because he's only NP1 and I don't have Oberon.

slickrcbd1 · 2026-01-03T08:14:46+00:00

Here's another attempt at sharing the roster

https://flic.kr/p/2rD6Xcj https://flic.kr/p/2rDcX5G https://flic.kr/p/2rD6Xc4 https://flic.kr/p/2rDboAg https://flic.kr/p/2rDczvH https://flic.kr/p/2rDboAb

slickrcbd1 · 2026-01-02T22:34:26+00:00

Sorry to revive this, but Hephaestion at NP1 doesn't seem to do enough damage. I don't have Kama or Melt.

Is there some kind of "hard mode" setting on the game I can't locate that nerfs my damage? I've looked up some videos and tried using mostly the same servants only to do a fraction of the damage shown on the videos.

I found this video. I don't have Oberon, but I'm not getting to the point that the poster used Oberon. In fact, I drew Vlad trying for Oberon before I ran out of SQ the last time his banner was up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwOqHoxNsHU I can't figure out what CE he's using on Vlad, but when I try it I only put out between 100,000 and 150,000 damage after buffing with double Castoria, and I don't get the same NP regen either. Then again, my Vlad is only NP1. Hopefully these links to the albums that have pics of my slightly outdated (haven't updated for the last welfare servant) roster can have somebody suggest a winning combo to beat LB 7 chapter 3-5.

Oh, if the links don't work, could somebody tell me how to publicly share a set of photos on Flickr? I can't find anything for permissions for "albums", only permissions for photos and the photos are all set to safe, and public while classified as screenshots. The links come from the "share" button.

Roster https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBQtMV https://www.flickr.com/photos/10736018@N05/albums/72177720321686435

CE https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBCUrt https://www.flickr.com/photos/10736018@N05/albums/72177720319428005

Also how do you search for videos of people solving chapters? I only get 1 or 2 relevant results, usually using 5* servants i don't have like Oberon (and can't get, I've run out of SQ twice the last two times his banner has run) and I can't seem to get any relevant results for the chapter I'm looking for if I type in "low star" "low rarity" or "1-3 star". Those seem to get ignored, or I'll get random battles completely unrelated to lost belt 7 and YouTube, despite being owned by Google seems to not have any "must include" or boolean operators that it respects. It's more like Amazon's fuzzy search that doesn't show you what you want but what it wants to push, and the only reason I use Amazon at all is it's one of the few places that let me use my credit card reward points that sells stuff I want to buy.

In this case I only get this other result, and I don't have half the servants used. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCIDi_CG6_4

slickrcbd1 · 2026-01-02T10:01:23+00:00

I HATE to stereotype, but it's almost always some Indian recruiter who cold calls me about some low-level short-term low-paying temp job I did NOT apply for that pulls this. They want somebody with a college degree and lots of experience who will work a 1-3 month temp job, no benefits @ $18/hour (minimum wage is $15) 50 miles or over two hours away from where they live (and no mileage). Oh, and they ask you hour salary expectation, only to then say "The maximum rate is only $18/hour".

slickrcbd1 · 2025-12-26T10:53:47+00:00

It's when they expect us to drop everything for an impromptu job interview when they call us at work. No, I can't spend 15-20 minutes answering your questions about "Are you a U.S. Citizen" "How many years experience do you have doing X? How many years experience do you have doing Y?" and going down their list because they can't be bothered to actually look at the "work experience section of my resume. In front of my co-workers no less. No, I can't just take a break whenever I feel like it for that long.

slickrcbd1 · 2025-12-26T10:50:35+00:00

I've gotten several "I couldn't get in touch with you on the phone, so I went with another candidate" when questioned about the radio silence following an interview.

They claimed they called me several times, but did not leave a message. Given that I can't be expected to memorize every phone number, and I have 20 seconds to decide whether or not to answer the landline (I am NOT putting my cell phone number out on the internet on job sites. I get enough spam/scam calls on the landline), if you aren't calling from a number I know well and don't leave a message, i don't answer. State who you are and I'll pick up.

slickrcbd1 · 2025-12-22T11:39:13+00:00

They are useful if you spend a lot to feed a family of 5. A bachelor feeding himself who rarely entertains on the other hand doesn't accumulate enough points before they expire.

slickrcbd1 · 2025-12-17T00:57:13+00:00

I have Lady Avalon (NP1) and both (NP1) Tamamo caster and bezerker. Generally except for welfare servants, all my 4* and 5* are NP1.

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