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No, sometimes pay is the original issue. But if they choose to leave, do not offer them money to stay. Any employee who stays is not being very smart, the only
by wkimeria 11y ago
No, sometimes pay is the original issue.
But if they choose to leave, do not offer them money to stay. Any employee who stays is not being very smart, the only interest the company has in paying you more is keeping you long enough to train your replacement.
If you were not worth X the day before you quit, how are you suddenly worth X the day you decide to quit?
I've seen people accept a counter-offer from a company, and very few of those lasted more than 6 months, or the amount of time it takes the company to make them no longer indispensable.
- oriolid 11y ago> If you were not worth X the day before you quit, how are you suddenly worth X the day you decide to quit? On the other hand, why would they have paid you X even if you were worth it, if they could get away with less?
- granfalloon 11y agoI wouldn't begrudge an employer for negotiating my salary and not paying me what they think I'm "worth," but I also wouldn't feel guilty about doing the least amount of work necessary to fly under the radar at the job and not get fired. (Not a direct response to your comment, I know -- it just made me think of how annoyed I get when the former is considered "just business" while its equivalent on the employee's end is usually regarded as "mooching" or a moral failing.)
- shostack 11y ago>"If you were not worth X the day before you quit, how are you suddenly worth X the day you decide to quit?" This can easily happen when you are actually worth X, but the company thinks you are worth X-Y because they have a history of underpaying and perhaps were able to get away with it when the economy was down. If the market is willing to pay X for someone like you, you are worth X regardless of what your current employer thinks you are worth (as long as you act on it).