[ajarmst]

I think it's more "What's wrong with this country? Can't a man walk down the street without someone trying to get him to give up something of value for less than it's worth?" The issue's not with being offered a job, it's the "here's a smart person making money for themselves, let's see if we can get them to make money for us instead!" attitude.

[hawkice]

This attitude isn't even really a problem (why hire anyone who can't run a surplus in their personal life, if you want them to run a surplus for your business?), the problem is, "let's try to trick this person down a garden path of making money for us" and "I get to decide who this person is, and if I say they're an engineer, that's their identity", both of which are absurd and essentially doomed to be wastes of time for everyone involved.