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    4 months ago

    Greetings, I do a little IT support for an elderly neighbor (mostly fighting with her printer for her) and she recently fell for one of those fake Microsoft scams, and gave a scammer access to her laptop and hundreds of dollars worth of Nordstrom gift cards…

    She’s given me the laptop as she’s afraid to open it. I’m thinking of formatting the HDs and reinstalling windows, she only uses the laptop for Internet browsing and email, so she’s not worried about losing data.

    Would this be enough to undo whatever the scammer would have done on the laptop?

    Any considerations or advice would be appreciated. Apologies if this isn’t an appropriate question for this forum.








  • You are in an ideal place to negotiate, you have nothing to lose. Ask for whatever pay and accomodations would make you happy to stay, and if they can’t meet them then you move on.

    They will say whatever they think might scare you into staying, but don’t be intimidated, you have all the negotiating advantage.

    When HR calls back maybe have some notes jotted down to reference so you don’t forget in the moment. Something about how your really enjoying the role/work/people but the commute/pay just can’t work for you.

    In my experience having another job offer is the surest way to successfully negotiate a raise, so invent one, and tell HR that you’d really love to stay if they could match this offer. (Pay increase, full remote etc) shoot for the moon and if they balk, it will make walking away easier. You can say that you really wish you could stay but if they can’t match/beat the offer you’ll have to do what’s best for your family.

    Cheers and Good luck!