I worked there for about 3-4 years and people would try to make you feel bad or guilty for all kinds of things. Sharing you got laid off was an automatic disqualification from any interview. Lying your way through was the only way. Now I think it could have been systemic or cultural.
My advice to OP, you really dodged a bullet. This isn’t a healthy workplace culture that values you as a human being. Pat yourself on the back and move onwards and upwards.
It's OK, we all guessed it was the US ;)
Is this meant to convince you to take the offer, or is this just to vent off some steam before closing your file?
Instead: "Mr. Cochne, we're sorry that we can't match your salary expectations this time. We do find you a good fit for the company, so please think about us in the future."
There. No hard feelings. No burning bridges. Professional. People come and go.
As expected. They will all attempt to drive down salaries. It will probably work
As a large corporation, do they care about something else other than money?
They should display some more empathy and should read the situation correctly. A significant portion of the recently laid off people are from HR and recruiting.
The sad reality is this industry is full of assholes, I don't even mean they trying to pay as little as possible, that's "business", I mean unprofessional people who play "good cop, bad cop" and all the childish games they learn on TV movies.
Some of them really think they are the "new Steve Jobs", and act like one.
Do you expect your car sales guy to be professional? I’d love for that to be the case, but the reality is usually not so.
Oh no! Oh, the humanity!
Wow what a nice place, that's the mindset i want from my future employer. A truly nice place for builders i see... ;)
Run, don't walk away from them...