Long story short. He's had 3 interviews, was one of 2 candidates for the last one, has been waiting 10 days for them to get back to him. Every day his agent phones with another reason why the decision hasn't been made that day. We're told he would definitely, definately know by today.
Job advertised as being between £x and £y. Dh's salary in his current job hits the top of these two. Potential company have known that since day 1. Agent told DH he'd be trying for slightly higher bearing in mind DH losing rights to redundancy etc that he enjoys at the mo.
Agent called back today and told DH he was the preferred candidate despite the other guy having more current experience, but the other guy is asking for far less. He has asked DH to consider the salary he is currently on...but he wants DH to put in writing that he would accept this despite him not actually even been offered the job yet??!
I personally feel that DH is in a secure job right now, with good potential redundancy package. I know he is not happy in his currently role, but there are other apart from this new one out there, and that they have mucked him around royally thus far which doesn't bode we'll for his being employed by them.
Can anyone give me a dispassionate view on this situation? Is this sort of thing normal these days?
I believe that if they really want DH they should have got back to him sooner and shouldn't be trying to play him off agains the cheaper guy. The money thing wouldn't have been so much of an issue to me had they come back the first day they said they would and said YES we really want you, but we need to negotiate on salary, how about we split the difference and give you half the extra you are looking for. (About 5% above current salary)