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The bit about the counter offer is interesting. It was noted that this wasn't a counter offer, it was a "your salary is being updated anyway for competitivenes

The bit about the counter offer is interesting. It was noted that this wasn't a counter offer, it was a "your salary is being updated anyway for competitiveness", but I'd misinterpreted the exact wording, as it sounded like a counter at the time. For this to be true the author's salary would need to have increased regardless of whether they left. That would mean, if they chose to go, they'd earn a bit more during their notice period[1]. If the author's salary didn't increase during their notice period, or if the role didn't have the subsequent higher salary when it was advertised to find a replacement, then it was an offer designed to counter the author leaving, and I think it's very dubious to call that anything other than a counter-offer. [1] In the UK we to have 1, 3 or 6 month notice periods depending on seniority. None of this "2 weeks and I'm gone!" efficiency like the USA. Very high level (eg c-suite) roles sometimes have even more.

jamietanna 4y ago
I'd originally written it on my salary page as a "counter offer", but the competitive increase was given to me regardless of the fact I was in my notice period :)
- onion2k 4y ago
  Fair play. That's actually quite impressive of Capital One then. Many companies wouldn't do that.
varispeed 4y ago
Regarding your point about notice periods in the UK, that's not really a given. More senior people typically work as consultants and it is not uncommon to have a zero day notice period. Which works great for both sides - senior people don't have issues with finding jobs and if the job turns out to be a chore they can do 'kthxbye' and be at a new one the next day. This is the same for workers doing work through an agency which gets increasingly more popular. Notice periods can also by asymmetrical - the employer can let go of the worker without notice period, but worker if they want to quit need to give 2-8+ weeks.

jamietanna 4y ago

I'd originally written it on my salary page as a "counter offer", but the competitive increase was given to me regardless of the fact I was in my notice period :)

onion2k 4y ago
Fair play. That's actually quite impressive of Capital One then. Many companies wouldn't do that.

varispeed 4y ago

Regarding your point about notice periods in the UK, that's not really a given. More senior people typically work as consultants and it is not uncommon to have a zero day notice period. Which works great for both sides - senior people don't have issues with finding jobs and if the job turns out to be a chore they can do 'kthxbye' and be at a new one the next day. This is the same for workers doing work through an agency which gets increasingly more popular. Notice periods can also by asymmetrical - the employer can let go of the worker without notice period, but worker if they want to quit need to give 2-8+ weeks.