Is it Wrong to Accept an Employment Counter-Offer? 1048
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?"
Rules for Accepting Counter offers (Score:3, Funny)
STEP 2. ?????????
STEP 3. Profit
Like a counteroffer for a G/F? (Score:3, Funny)
Statistics. (Score:4, Funny)
* Statistics show that if you accept a counteroffer, the probability of voluntarily leaving in six months or being let go in one year is extremely high.
Well, hey, with rock-solid information like that to go on, I'd be a fool to accept a counteroffer.
After all, if you can't accept vague, unsubstatiated, unaccountable claims on the Internet as gospel, you just can't trust anyone.
--saint
Your only job is to justify your salary (Score:3, Funny)
Ignore anyone who tells you that if they valued you they'd be paying you more without you having to quit. That's nonsense. You might love your car, but when you went to the dealer you tried to get the best price you could. Maybe you even threatened to go to a different dealer. Interviewing at other companies is a legitimate tactic in salary negotiations. However, if you don't let your current employer know that salary negotiations are going on, they can get upset.
Re:Take the Counter (Score:5, Funny)
Re:With the way IT jobs are going... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Do Not Accept (Score:4, Funny)
I am, and I also have no loyalty and no feelings.
Just last week, I asked myself 50$/hours to cut my lawn. I was the only one able to do the job at the moment, so I accepted. One month later, I fired myself and hired a kid to do it for 10$/hours.
Slippery Slope (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Definitely do not accept, I did this and was la (Score:4, Funny)
Umm... Exactly why shouldn't I do this, again?
Re:Statistics. (Score:5, Funny)
At first read, I thought it was rather vague, too. However, upon closer inspection, they use the adjective extremely, thus cleaning up any uncertainties about those extremely high probabilities.
As far as being unsubstatiated or unaccountable claims, perhaps you missed the first word, statistics. Statistics show these claims, thus substatiating them. The statistics are accountable for the probabilities.
Re:Take the Counter -- NOTHING BUT BIAS (Score:3, Funny)
it's much better to eat a well balanced diet
That's why I was sure to mention cookies as well.
Re:Do Not Accept (Score:4, Funny)
Chris Rock's take on counter-offers (Score:2, Funny)
"Do you know what it means when they pay you minimum wage? It means that if I could pay you LESS I would. BUT it's against the law."
Go for it! (Score:2, Funny)
[Maybe you should go for the counteroffer.]