I failed at negotiating my salary again.
Dejected, I took out my phone and opened the job recommendation form Xu Wen had sent me, wondering whether I should accept his spousal placement offer.
As it happened, I came across a trending post from someone in my city: [My senior used the PhD spousal placement policy to find me a job. How should I thank his girlfriend?]
The comments were filled with question marks and skepticism.
[Your senior has a girlfriend, but he gave you his spouse's placement benefit? I understand all the words, but somehow this makes no sense to me.]
[What kind of new relationship is this? Your senior gets you a job and gives his girlfriend a green hat. Is she some kind of world-class sucker?]
[No one objects if I call the poster a shameless homewrecker, right? And now she's saying her senior's girlfriend is so capable that she wouldn't want this job anyway.]
I found it ridiculous and was just about to scroll past.
Then I saw a message from my PhD-student boyfriend: "Qingqing, about that job I told you about before, I've decided to recommend my junior instead."
