# Ghosted the Moment You Name a Number

**[TRUE STORY]** — by Candidate · via X

The salary question is where the conversation quietly ends. Name a figure and the replies stop — no rejection, just silence, which spares the recruiter from ever writing the number down. The candidate is left to read the range from the void.

*Source: [@_aboihasnoname · X · 551 likes, 79 reposts, 10 replies · 10d old](https://x.com/_aboihasnoname/status/2095033859830104509)*
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