Reply #71: While I agree there are people with a false sense of entitlement - and rather [View All]

[mondo joe]

many of them at that - I think negotiating for salary and walking away from a deal you don't like is a reasonable thing to do.

I've worked with people who after being hired THEN decided they didn't like the salary structure, or decided they deserved certain promotions just because they were there. That, to me, is a false sense of entitlement.

But negotiating a salary and refusing to take a position that doesn't pay what you think you want is a whole different ball game. In such a scenario everyone is acting responsibly for their own interests and isn't claiming entitlement.