"Just tell her that you got implicitly advised to think it through without knowing the numbers first?"

"Or I could tell her but not you, yet?  They did kinda authorize me to pass on the job offers myself, if you came over and asked me what was going on and if anything was meant seriously, so I actually do know the numbers too.  Well, and also because they wanted to give our hospital a chance to counterbid, though with this sort of look that said that there'd be questions about why we hadn't paid you more earlier... but, like, not in a way where they wanted that to impede all the interested parties putting in bids on you, because that's in your interest too."

"My guess, for what it's worth, is that you're supposed to think it through knowing the part that the Keeper told you, that the higher modal-case monetary offer is from Default Hospital, but not knowing specifically how much modal-case money or impact you'd pass up by spending whatever fraction of your time in Exception Handling.  Then once you know how you feel about that, you actually look at the amounts of money.  Then you go into a soundproof room and spend a while screaming to express your emotions about how you can't possibly provide that much economic value and are going to hugely disappoint these people who falsely believe in you way too much.  And then, you know, take the job, because they know better and it's not your job to correct them about that anyways."

"Though I guess you could also take the job and just never ever find out how much it pays, at all?  Just set up an agent who handles all your finances sight-unseen, and have an account somewhere which always gets refilled to at least ten thousand unskilled-labor-hours no matter how much you spend?"

"Just tell her that you got implicitly advised to think it through without knowing the numbers first?"

"Or I could tell her but not you, yet?  They did kinda authorize me to pass on the job offers myself, if you came over and asked me what was going on and if anything was meant seriously, so I actually do know the numbers too.  Well, and also because they wanted to give our hospital a chance to counterbid, though with this sort of look that said that there'd be questions about why we hadn't paid you more earlier, if you were generating that much value for us... but, like, not in a way where they wanted that to impede all the interested parties putting in bids on you, because that's in your interest too."

"My guess, for what it's worth, is that you're supposed to think it through knowing the part that the Keeper told you, that the higher modal-case monetary offer is from Default Hospital, but not knowing specifically how much modal-case money or impact you'd pass up by spending whatever fraction of your time in Exception Handling.  Then once you know how you feel about that, you actually look at the amounts of money.  Then you go into a soundproof room and spend a while screaming to express your emotions about how you can't possibly provide that much economic value and are going to hugely disappoint these people who falsely believe in you way too much.  And then, you know, take the job, because they know better and it's not your job to correct them about that anyways."

"Though I guess you could also take the job and just never ever find out how much it pays, at all?  Just set up an agent who handles all your finances sight-unseen, and have an account somewhere which always gets refilled to at least ten thousand unskilled-labor-hours no matter how much you spend?"

"Just tell her that you got implicitly advised to think it through without knowing the numbers first?"

"Or I could tell her but not you, yet?  They did kinda authorize me to pass on the job offers myself, if you came over and asked me what was going on and if anything was meant seriously, so I actually do know the numbers too.  Well, and also because they wanted to give our hospital a chance to counterbid, though with this sort of look that said that there'd be questions about why we hadn't paid you more earlier, if you were generating that much value for us... but, like, not in a way where they wanted that to impede all the interested parties putting in bids on you, because that's in your interest too."

"My guess, for what it's worth, is that you're supposed to think it through knowing the part that the Keeper told you, that the higher modal-case monetary offer is from Default Hospital, but not knowing specifically how much modal-case money or impact you'd pass up by spending whatever fraction of your time in Exception Handling.  Then once you know how you feel about that, you actually look at the amounts of money.  Then you go into a soundproof room and spend a while screaming to express your emotions about how you can't possibly provide that much economic value and are going to hugely disappoint these people who falsely believe in you way too much.  And then, you know, take the job, because they know better and it's not your job to correct them about that anyways."

"Though I guess you could also take the job and just never ever find out how much it pays, at all?  Just set up an agent who handles all your finances sight-unseen, and have an account somewhere which always gets refilled to at least ten thousand unskilled-labor-hours no matter how much you spend."

"Just tell her that you got implicitly advised to think it through without knowing the numbers first?"

"Or I could tell her but not you, yet?  They did kinda authorize me to pass on the job offers myself, if you came over and asked me what was going on and if anything was meant seriously, so I actually do know the numbers too.  Well, and also because they wanted to give our hospital a chance to counterbid, though with this sort of look that said that there'd be questions about why we hadn't paid you more earlier, if you were generating that much value for us... but, like, not in a way where they wanted that to impede all the interested parties putting in bids on you, because that's in your interest too."

"My guess, for what it's worth, is that you're supposed to think it through knowing the part that the Keeper told you, that the higher modal-case monetary offer is from Default Hospital, but not knowing specifically how much modal-case money you'd pass up by spending whatever fraction of your time in Exception Handling.  Then once you know how you feel about that, you actually look at the amounts of money.  Then you go into a soundproof room and spend a while screaming to express your emotions about how you can't possibly provide that much economic value and are going to hugely disappoint these people who falsely believe in you way too much.  And then, you know, take the job, because they know better and it's not your job to correct them about that anyways."

"Though I guess you could also take the job and just never ever find out how much it pays, at all?  Just set up an agent who handles all your finances sight-unseen, and have an account somewhere which always gets refilled to at least ten thousand unskilled-labor-hours no matter how much you spend."