I have been waiting for an offer acceptance for a sales manager in Texas for about a week now, and my client’s getting anxious. I know he’s playing footsie with a iffy offer from some guys based out of the Caribbean and trying to hold my guys hostage for about an additional 5K base, and he’s extremely greedy. Turns out that he didn’t return the signed letter by 5PM Pacific today to my LA-based client (pissing them off) to start 2/1, and now about an hour ago he found out that the other group wasn’t going to make him a deal.
Now he is ready to whore himself out for 20K less than his original price, and can’t wrap his head around why I can’t put him anywhere at 9PM on a Thursday to interview tomorrow. He’s one of those guys that brags on his 10 year old mid-career MBA and that he is a ”diversity candidate”. Then he asks if he was white if he would have a job lined up, ’cause that would be “fucking bullshit”. When I said no he scoffed and said maybe I was racist and he didn’t believe me.
Look, I don’t care if you are a cross-eyed Martian with genitalia sprouting from your fucking forehead, as long as I think I can get you hired. Right now, I can’t. On January 21st, I could. I can’t turn water into Jagermeister and I can’t pull a job out of my ass after hours, no matter what your profile is.