I don’t understand the relocation one - how did you get to a job offer without knowing that was needed?

I’ve turned down jobs because they needed me to relocate and wouldn’t provide comp to make their timeline of when they needed me to start, but I knew about the relocation beforehand and THEY knew that I lived across the country from them. We couldn’t find the price that worked, but that’s not relocation it’s compensation.

I don’t believe they’re correlated. If you read news stories about “border control” they like to float this number, regardless of relevance. The article, I felt, doesn’t really go into detail of why they’re firing him, just that he’s not liked by a variety of groups.

Relevant anecdote: as a minor(15) I was at an outdoor concert and got stomped on, collapsed onto someone and got involuntarily crowdsurfed/pushed forward and over the rails separating crowd and band. Lying there stunned, some paramedics grabbed me, put me in an ambulance and took me to a hospital. I kept telling them I needed to go back, but they insisted they had to take me. I get to the ER, and I sit there with a guy who has his head cracked open before they take me, X-ray me, and call my mom to come get me.

Fast forward to a $8k bill about a month later. One of the charges on it was for IV services (that weren’t performed) and would have been difficult to perform because I’m so needlephobic I need to be restrained for a blood draw. Let alone my mom picked me up and I had no needle marks or IV.

When she brought out the big guns (that she’s a lawyer and that they essentially kidnapped me) they ended up dropping the cost to $800 which insurance paid. She still will get upset about it if it’s brought up.