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> It's also messy and expensive to counter offer once a resignation letter has been sent. Not to mention that accepting a counter offer is a bad move. The offe
by praptak 13y ago
> It's also messy and expensive to counter offer once a resignation letter has been sent.
Not to mention that accepting a counter offer is a bad move. The offer might just be to keep you until they find a cheaper replacement. Even if that is not the case you will be perceived as risky - no investment in you, first to fire during tough times.
On top of that it perpetuates the crappy tactic "pay peanuts until they threaten to leave". Nope, counteroffers are for suckers.
- betenoire 13y agoWhat do you mean "accepting counter offers is a bad move"? What would be the point of negotiating then? Is this referring to a counter offer after threatening to quit, a counter offer during the hiring process, or both?
- hfsktr 13y agoI would assume after threatening to leave. Here's a thread from a while ago discussing counter offers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4970843 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4970843 From what I gather when you dislike it enough to quit you start to resent little things. No more free coffee, no vacation, too many hours, office politics/culture. Not the money. Not always the case but when you get to the tipping point it's because things went too far already.
- betenoire 13y agoThat makes sense to me, once I've decided to move on, I'm done: it's not about the money at that point. But since the article was about job offers, and so were most of the comments, I thought I may have missed something.