I have always had great experiences in the last 12 years here with Swiss managers, perhaps that made me naive and I generalized that I could only expect such high class behavior.
No one is talking about pay off, but learning the rules of the game.
If you read the title again: Being offered a job and now my future ex boss changed his mind. Valid?
You will see that I have found the answer, all the rest is for our amusement
Thats quite a high escalation plan. What happens if, as PapaGoose says, the boss had always that salary in mind and something in the communication failed? I mean, if OP takes for granted that the boss was cheating and does 1. to 4. in your mail, she is basically undermining his name with all type of company powers and colleagues.
Sometimes nobody is wrong, everybody goes with the best intention to the negotiation table and due to miscommunication shit happens. I suggest to start only finding a mediator in HR, addressing the problem as Treverus pointed out to the HR head, to have them facilitating an intermediate solution: either your proposal of 60% ( is a good one, just needs to land the right desk in HR.) Or simply reject the new position and go back to your old one. HR can and should solve this without too much fuzz.
I have hired quite some people before and somehow did I never fail on mentioning salary. Especially if the person would be taking a severe pay cut to join my team... as I would be really intrigued that she wanted the job so badly.
Honestly: there is no excuse for the communication breaking down at this point and a manager simply expecting a candidate to take 25% less is in my opinion worse than a rather naive OP.
Steps 1 to 4 are sequential... you do them one at a time to solve the problem. I never said the new boss was cheating, I am saying he is unprofessional. I think that the other powers in the company deserve to know this if it turns out to be fact - because people are usually not selectively unprofessional when it comes to HR matters but probably act the same in other work relations.
You do understand she is venting a bit, maybe a harsh comment, but hey you guys do earn a heckuva lot a money and when a mere not so high paid mortal has to pay those big fees it is painful ! That is why I have lawyer insurance (HINT!)
I value lawyers for the job they do... but for cases like this one do I strongly recommend common sense over any legal insurance.
C'mon lets leave the OP alone. I've got a feeling he/she will be back with the second episode.
Either side can change their minds for any reason at any time, it's very fair & dealt with by giving notice.
IIRC you did not accept their offer....... You made a counter offer so you have a short memory.
You need to learn the rules of the game, are you by any chance an only child who always got away stamping your foot?
it's probably not leading anywhere if we start to go down this route with the OP... let's just stay resourceful and supportive, shall we?
I fought my former employer and won. My former employer fired
me for looking for another Job and didn't pay my three months notice.
I won, and I have had several Jobs since then.
You only have one side of the story. I ve also hired quite some people, and some companies recommend in their interviewing guidelines not to mention salaries until the interviewee asks , especially on companies that publish salary ranges for each position listing, so if you are doing an internal move by applying to a certain position you know the scale and thus the salary level. Again, with only one side of the story we don t know if the boss could assume that she knew the salary level when accepting, he simply welcomed her to his team. I find it simple: OP wildly accepts, boss welcomes her, once the salary topic was discussed, the OP finds out it is not what she wants. So whats the problem? Take your old job, learn to ask before accepting a job and don t make a huge fuzz because sorry to say, the boss didn t inform, but the OP didn t ask. I have seen very experienced, honorable and professional people having a miscommunication, we are all human. The blame is at the very least to be shared in my opinion, and under this situation reaching to the CEO or going to court seems to me quite adventurous, even if the other steps fail. BTW, if the intermediate steps like HR fail, may be that the new boss is manipulating, as has been suggested, OR may also well be that OP is telling us only one side and there are good reasons for going back to point zero.