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Is it Wrong to Accept an Employment Counter-Offer?
An Anonymous Coward asks: "I was happily working away at a low-paying but otherwise good job I'd had for several months, after taking a huge pay cut when the dot.bomb bubble burst. Then a recruiter contacted me with a very nice potential position - I interviewed and received an offer with a 50% increase in pay, everything else nearly the same. When I received the offer and decided I was interested, I broke the news to my current employer - to my surprise they extended a counter-offer with a matching salary, thereby eliminating my only reason for considering the other job. However, I talked to some friends and checked the web for ideas and realized that there are a *lot* of ppl out there who believe you should never accept a counter-offer. They make some good points, and there are a lot of those pages - but on the web popularity breeds increased popularity, in a self-feeding cycle, so I'm wondering if the numbers are skewed unrealistically. Is it really that rare to do well by accepting a counter-offer? Do Slashdot readers have experience with counter-offers from present employers, positive or negative?"
Do you really want to be working for a company that you have threaten to leave before you can get a pay raise?
Just something to think about....
David
You have todo what makes you happy, shiny things does not improve your life.
Of course happiness is the first concern; being that my job is also my hobby- this was not an issue. I would have been happy in either place.
Now having money cannot make you happy, an acute lack of it can certainly make you sad.
more money does not equal job problem resolution
Webdesigner for a small company in AK getting paid way way less than I should but I have been turned down for raises twice.
Pro's: I have full reign of the network and get a new pc and monitors whenever I need it. Liberal time off and a great bunch of co workers
Con': Office politics and incompetant management make this company very very volitile.
If I get an offer that at least balances between restrictions and benefits I am outta here and not looking back. I expect a counter but since I could't get the raise when asking for it no way. I am not using this as leverage because of how retarded my manager is the trust will be gone!
If the situation makes the new offer worth taking in most cases many would agree the extra bonus for staying on only bury's the reasons to leave for a short period of time!
wah!