
I'm not saying that it applied in this case but sometimes job recruiters say / do these types of things with a hope that the prospective employee will put out or do favors. In other words they want them to come begging.
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Comments: I've experienced this before and its not a nice feeling specially when they have that condescending tone during the interview that makes you second guess wanting to apply for the job in the first place.