Ten Reasons For Not Accepting a Counteroffer
- What type of company do you work for if you have to threaten to resign
before they give you what you are worth?
- From where is the money for the counteroffer coming? Is it your next raise
early? (All companies have strict wage and salary guidelines which must be
followed).
- Your company will immediately start looking for a new person at a lower
salary price.
- You have now made your employer aware that you are unhappy. From this day
on, your loyalty will always be in question.
- When promotion time comes around, your employer will remember who was
loyal, and who wasn't.
- When times get tough, your employer will begin the cutback with you.
- The same circumstances that now cause you to consider a change will repeat
themselves in the future, even if you accept a counteroffer.
- Statistics show that if you accept a counteroffer, the probability of
voluntarily leaving in six months or being let go within one year is extremely
high.
- Accepting a counteroffer is an insult to your intelligence and a blow to
your personal pride, knowing that you were bought.
- Once the word gets out, the relationship that you now enjoy with your
co-workers will never be the same. You will lose the personal satisfaction of
peer group acceptance.
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