I did not know about this

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In my previous post I mentioned a theme called fairness and I said that there are some cases when life just isn't fair to us. Let me tell you what I meant by that. About two weeks ago, one of my (ex)colleagues from the University has contacted me via facebook and told me that they need an engineer where he is currently working. The problem is that at that point I started working for some other guy in the city that is closest to the place I live in. But the thing is that I have not signed any contract with that guy yet. Anyways, I asked him about what offer they have for me and he told me some offer that seemed pretty reasonable to me and I took it. So, I told the guy that I was working for at that point that I cannot work for him anymore because I found something better. The guy understood me and did not get angry at me for the fact that I left him. So, I came to talk to this new boss from this new company that is located in a different city which is very far from the place that I live in and therefore I have to move to another city and which requires me to pay some rent for the hosting. Once I got there, the new boss told me a few stuff about their company and he accepted me to work for them. So, the next step was for me to move to the city where the company is located in and start working. Well, everything seems good until now except that they did not tell me one very important detail: the program as well as the payment/salary is only 80% of the value that is on the contract. You may be wondering why they only pay 80% of the value. Well, the reason for that is because they don’t have any work for now. But this raises another question: if they don’t have much work to do then why did they hire me? What was the purpose of that? Well, there is an answer for this question as well which is that there are rumours around that pretty soon enough the company will get to have many projects to deal with and the work will become really intense. But, even if that is true, why did they not tell me this from the beginning? Neither my colleague nor my boss have told me that during this period the work and the payment in this company are not at 100% of the value in the contract but 80%. And not only that but they are like so from about 6 or 7 months ago. What do you think about this?