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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?"
If a company really wanted you to stay, and thought you were worth 50% more than they are paying you, why didn't they pay you 50% more to begin with and prevent you from looking. They were mistreating you, if they were willing to pay you 50% more, and didn't until you quit. They will only do it again.
If the new offer was 1% more, and they then went 2% more, I could accept that, you might gain that much more value between reviews, (but at review time your raise should be less...). Frankly they don't think you are worth 50% more, they just want a few months to train your replacement.
Dogs are loyal. People work for money and job satisfaction. If they are willing to pay your more than they are, then they didn't try their best to satisfy you, and you should assume they will not.
A man of his word will not back out of an agreement once made for money. It looks like you consider money more than your word, and that is bad. Once you quit, you are out. They can hire you again in a month if you don't like to new place, but you owe the new place your honest word.
Yeah, but what's two more bucks an hour to a monster like McDonald's?
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
You have todo what makes you happy, shiny things does not improve your life.
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Oh yes they do
Having TiVo, PowerBook, Big Widescreen TV, Wireless Palm, ADSL all improve *my* life
I wish we could see the names of the moderetors so we can find out who it's that performs crap moderating (like moderating that comment down as a Troll...) then we could a community burn *their* karma down for bad moderation (to a point where it was so low they would never be picked for moderation duties).
HOW, *EXACTLY*, IS DISAGREEING WITH SOMEONE AND GIVING VALID REASONS FOR DOING SO, THE SAME AS TROLLING?
Are we not supposed to disagree now in our society? Are we all "with a poster or with the terrorists"?
Pardon me for daring to express a fucking opinion!
Here's a big FUCK YOU to you mister moderator, you lily livered, chicken shit, middle of the road, don't rock the boat, ass kissing, missionary position, tedious fuck.
You are NOT invited to moderate so you can express your opinions, you are invited to do so in order to make this forum more useful for everybody. If you can't agree to that kindly get the fuck out of here because your just fucking the rest of us off and screwing up the system for everybody.
You may take my karma and shove it up your ass.