Just to tie a little ribbon on this situation, I finally had a good chat with the agency recruiter who got me in there. I don't know what to say. Not that it matters now because, as I said in the other glorious thread, I scored a dream job anyway - but these people are nuts. Well maybe not nuts but unprofessional? Goofy?
I don't know what they are.
Basically what happened was, after I had been there for three days they decided to change the job description - which wouldn't have actually mattered because I can do whatever they want - but they decided the job was going to pay less. Like WAY less. Like slashing 30% off the pay I agreed to.
Madness. Even if I didn't have my new job, my answer would have been somewhere between FOK NO!! and ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR EVERLOVING MINDS?!?!
Good thing that events unfolded as they did because if I had declined my interview today, thinking that I already had a job - and then they pulled something like that, I would be going in there looking to skin someone.
So whatever, I am leaving those tools in my rearview.
The end.