Top Ten Reasons for Not Accepting a Counter Offer
1. What type of company needs to be threatened with a resignation to give
you what you're worth?
2. Where is the money for the counter-offer coming from?
The most likely explanation is that it's your next raise a
bit early. After all, companies have strict wage and salary
budgets which must be followed.
3. Your company will initiate a search for a new person at a cheaper
price. It's simply the business of economics.
4. You have now made
your employer aware of the fact that you are unhappy. From this day
on, your loyalty will always be in question.
5. When promotion time
comes around, your employer will always remember who was loyal and
who wasn't.
6. When time get tough, your employer will begin to cutback
with you.
7. The same circumstances that now cause you to consider
a change will repeat themselves in the future, even if you accept
a counter-offer.
8. Statistics show that if you accept a counter-offer,
the probability that you will not be with your present employer six
to nine months from now is very high.
9. A counter-offer is an insult to your word and your intelligence.
It is up to you to accept the insult or not. If you accept,
then your employer's regard for you will immediately decline.
You can be bought...your employer's own ego will preclude the
possibility of his ever regarding you as an equal.
10. Once the word gets out, the relationship that you now enjoy
with your co-workers will never be the same. The acceptance
of your peer group will start to diminish, in subtle ways at
first, but the trend will continue. The group will become more
cohesive around you and without you. The group will eventually
be excluded from the support structure. Groups can be quite
predictable in certain situations.
