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> The second situation is they're hemorrhaging staff, and will counter everyone That's probably how it happened to me. I gave my notice, and people looked worr
by danellis 9y ago
> The second situation is they're hemorrhaging staff, and will counter everyone
That's probably how it happened to me. I gave my notice, and people looked worried and had hushed conversations. A couple of hours later, managers from other teams were offering me better roles, but I turned them down, because the reason I was leaving was that I didn't like the way the company had treated me up to that point.
The problem with companies that act like that is that if they believed I deserved a better position, the time to act was when I had made it known I was unhappy, not when I'd already made the decision to leave. I'd already applied for internal promotion a couple of months before, and they could have acted then instead of just never getting back to me.
- jwatte 9y agoHow clear had you been in 1:1s that you were unhappy and would consider looking elsewhere?
- wpietri 9y agoYou mean besides applying for an internal promotion, I guess. How much clearer could he be at a company where he thought poor treatment was a pervasive problem?
- 0xbear 9y agoBeing clear about that kind of thing would be a serious career limiting move in all of the companies I worked at. No one likes a whiner, even if whining is justified. Simply put, in a 1:1 you're not in a position of power and therefore your leverage in this negotiation is very weak. If you are vital to the team/project, when seriously threatening to leave, you _are_ in a position of power.
- watwut 9y agoWhy do you assume there was 1:1? If there was, why do you assume he had enough trust to that person or that person could do something? He did not liked how the company was treated him, there is no reason to assume 1:1 were not part of the problem, went well or were full of trust. Nevertheless, it is all the same. If I need to threaten company with leaving (whether with job on hand or in 1:1) in order to be treated better, then I am better off elsewhere. Many companies treat complains as just whining - they see the goal as letting you talk and have some reassuring speech, not to take action.