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hostile salary negotiations (please help, my neighbor is distressed!)
So, I ran into a neighbor this morning and she is due to move to the UAE in March. She looked haggard and when I asked her what was wrong she just melted into a puddle of tears. I invited her in for tea to see if I could comfort her and she is very stressed. She's having a nightmare of a time with final negotiations regarding her salary. She's been offered a pretty prestigious position for a quasi government company. (I don't know what that means, her words!) Everyone wants her there, but the HR guy is being a dou*he. Alternatively she has another offer here in London that will expire tomorrow so she's in quite a pickle...she would much prefer the job in the UAE.
She says the HR guy gave her one figure verbally (directly to her over the phone) and then a slightly lower figure the next day over email (through the head hunter). She e-mailed back accepting the verbal offer on Friday (because HR told her they needed a decision by today) but now she hasn't heard anything back and she is very sad and confused.
I've told her that this job doesn't look like a good idea if they are treating her with such disrespect already, but she seems to think that it's a cultural 'last man standing wins' type deal and that they just want her to cave in and accept the lower offer. I suggested she come on here and start a thread asking for insight, instead she decided that maybe I could do it on her behalf and she would just lurk. DH has suggested to her that her HR person has probably just brought the market haggling tactic to the work place and she should not take the lack of communication as a slight.
Clearly the whole situation stinks of un-professionalism.
We're due to move to Dubai on the 8th of Feb and I feel like DH has had to fight a fair few battles with HR too...but I'm quite cynical about her situation, perhaps they don't want to hire her anymore? (but surely, they would just say so, no?)
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