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Negotiating with a new company seems like it's always faster and easier than negotiating with your current employer for a better raise or a promotion.
by evilduck 14y ago
Negotiating with a new company seems like it's always faster and easier than negotiating with your current employer for a better raise or a promotion.
- VLM 14y agoLower risk. Fail the negotiation with the new .biz and just go to work like usual, keep those paychecks flowing. Fail the negotiation with the current .biz and you could end up out on the street. The reasoning is negotiating with the current .biz really means re-negotiating the original deal. That obviously means someone screwed up the original negotiations and we don't employ screwups. Therefore intense pressure not to rock the boat, up to and including termination. Even worse a lot of decisions are made by group now at hiring time, so who do you even blame for the original mistake? Easiest to just blame the employee. If you lose, you have to leave anyway. If you win, they know you're looking and don't trust you anymore, so you have to leave anyway. Never bite the hand that feeds you, never negotiate with your current employer. Internal promotions are about as bad as salary re-negotiations.
- dsshimel 14y agoWhy is an internal promotion a bad thing?