[John Rogers]

I guess I have never had this happen because I was a senior Oracle DBA and the salary ranges were pretty well known through out the San Diego area. The last job I had before retiring I spend 3 hours listening to their problems from three VP's and the testing manager and when it was all done I asked why the current DBA wasn't in on the interview and they said that she had a nervous break down! All but two left and they asked if I was to start, what would I want and I said $75 per hour, double between midnight and 6:00AM or on a Sunday or when I was racing the 914-6! They nearly choked and I heard one whisper to the other that was a lot more than xxxxxx was paid? I said I would start tomorrow at 6:00AM since they were in a bunch of hurt and the older one said okay and we shook hands. I started the next morning and about noonish the HR lady came in and said the terms I wanted were very unreasonable but I noted the handshake and since I had already fixed several of their issues........she came back in an hour of so with my contract which read closely.

During the whole process there was no mention of my past salaries or such and if so I would have probably excused myself and left.....but then I was not in sales!