Dealing w/ Relocation Package Bait and Switch?

An anonymous reader asks: "I got a R&D job offer with a large company in Philadelphia area last week. It includes a relocation package that they told me was standard for my position. After I accepted the offer and made plans to terminate my current job, the recruiter handed me off to their relocation department, where I was told that my relocation package is significantly less than what I was promised. The relocation manager tells me that whenever there is conflict between their relocation policy and the offer, their internal relocation policy supersedes. Is this type of switch-and-bait common practice in corporate America? If you have gone through this nightmare before, any advice on how to respond to it?"

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This is what a friend of a friend of my sister did

[crvtec]

I heard about this story where these guys were getting screwed over by their job. So they came up with a plan to steal from the company, but where it would go unnoticed. See, every financial transaction had fractions of a penny associated with it. They take those fractions of a penny and deposit it into their own accounts, through a program that my super elite hacker friend of my sister's friend wrote. I heard they ended up with over a million dollars in a short period of time. True story. I think they even based a movie off of it. Maybe you can do something like that?

Re:You do

[HomelessInLaJolla]

> most companies today are a little hesitant to hire you as a 1099 employee directly...the c2c relationship shields them from this and helps keep the IRS happy with your employment designation

This is the first that I've heard of such things. Why don't all colleges have this as part of freshman orientation?

Maybe there's a priveleged segment of society which gets this information... and a slave segment of society which doesn't.