Recruiter: What are your expectations?
Me: I am flexible with the number. You must have allocated a budget for the role. We can discuss that number.
Recruiter: I have all the budget. Give me your number.
Me: 12.
Recruiter: That’s around 100% hike.

DIDN’T YOU JUST FUCKING SAID YOU HAVE ALL THE BUDGET?!

I’ve heard a recruiter tell the truth before. It was quite a surprise.

Salesmen are only honest when they're drunk, which is why I try to discuss prospective projects by a beer first.

When you have a stable job you like, you can seriously mess with desperate recruiters

"Yea, look my current job is Hyundai Elantra. I'm not gonna leave it for another Elantra but if you start putting Ferraris on offer... So yea, if you can get me something that has this much money, this specific set of benifits, and meets these other ridiculous me-specific requirements, give me a call"

Know a guy who doubled his salary pulling a stunt like that