STEP 1. Review pros and cons of both worksite evaluate your current standing with your employer. Also look your future prospects with the company that you are considering employment at and your current company.

STEP 2. ?????????

STEP 3. Profit

If you chick found another guy, and then you counter offered her, and she accepted, you know that she has been looking, and will continue to look untill she finds someone that you cant compeate with!

[From the article:]

* 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

Depending on where you work, how you get more money varies. Some places you have to threaten to quit. Others will give you a raise if you tell them you think you're underpaid (and they agree). Almost no employer will voluntarily increase your pay outside of a scheduled review.

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.

I expect that many corporate proxy-watchers are now raising their eyebrows because a whole whack of employees are suddenly looking at a site explaining why they should not accept a counter-offer :-)

Not to mention the (+1, Loyalty) you'll get from your current emplyer

It is also true of self employed people.

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.

I work in constant fear that I'll be replaced by someone cheaper. That is why I refuse to work for more than minimum wage.

Definitely do not accept, I did this and was laid

Umm... Exactly why shouldn't I do this, again?

After all, if you can't accept vague, unsubstatiated, unaccountable claims on the Internet as gospel, you just can't trust anyone.

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.

it's much better to eat a well balanced diet

That's why I was sure to mention cookies as well.

That sounds like a clear cut case of age based discrimination, you should sue!

I think this is probablly off topic, but thought I would post it just for laughs. Chris Rock once mentioned this in one of his acts.

"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."

I happened to notice that the "Ten Reasons for not accepting a Counteroffer" were posted by a head hunter (jobs@jobsontheweb.com). Hmm ... sounds suspect to me!!

[Maybe you should go for the counteroffer.]