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Re:Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About... by cmdrfred on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @05:29PM (#12213562)
How did you come to that conclusion? All thing being equal why shouldn't you pick the 100k guy?
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Re:Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About... by fizx on Thursday August 04, 2016 @03:12PM (#12227762)
All things are never equal.

Even assuming that you had an identical prior on the two candidates, the information that one person was willing to do a job for half price would make me doubt his intelligence.

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Re:Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About... by cmdrfred on Friday August 05, 2016 @07:08AM (#12231329)
So you always go for the guy who requests the highest salary?
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Re:Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About... by fizx on Saturday August 06, 2016 @02:43PM (#12239328)
If in some artificial scenario, I had to blind hire one of two candidates with functionally identical resumes, where one asks for market value, and the other asks for half market value, yeah, I take the higher salary..
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