Has anyone been successful in use an offer from another company as leverage for salary increase?
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EM Supervisors prove their loyalty by becoming sycophantic douchebags.
The door is always open. Please take you and the trash out the door when you leave, and place them in the garbage bin where you belong.
Seriously?
It only proves you are disloyal. It will not work. As a supervisor, my response was always "Good Luck in your new job".
I know of a case where someone was offered a 40% increase to leave xom and xom bumped up the year end salary from 10% raise to 12.5% raise. So technically an increase yea, but like basically no. That was in December 2019/ January 2020 though so maybe things have changed since then.
You’d get absolutely nailed even if they made a counter… leave or stay and keep quiet.
I’ve learned that no one is your friend at EM, everyone is either a) competitor b) boss aka cunts
@OP, agree with @shk: NEVER TAKE THE COUNTEROFFER. i'm an experienced hire. when i handed in my resignation at former employer, they came back with offers, i got calls from VPs. the recruiter that i was working with said it best: counteroffer is a poison apple, don't bite it. think about how all of us have been shafted the last couple of years. don't you think that by staying here you won't get f***ed in ranking and opportunities in years to come? yeh, XOM is like that. RUN, DON'T WALK TO GTFOH! don't look in the rearview mirror.
In general, that is a very bad strategy, esp at EM. If they agree today to solve a short term staffing issue, you will be earmarked and shitlisted at first opportunity. EM HR always gets their way. Either the opportunity makes sense or it doesn't. Don't look back
It rarely happens. This company runs on the philosophy that everyone is expendable and replaceable.
@OP Counter offer - seriously after what you saw in the past year or so?
Never take counter offer. NEVER
Very, very few pull this off. I'd guess less than 5% of people who resign get a counter-offer. And keep in mind this comes in the form of "I'm resigning" and a boss who really loves you says "let me see what I can do". You have to be ready and willing to leave. Don't try and leverage and offer you are not willing to take in a heartbeat.
YES. Absolutely. Worked for me. Try it, you'll see.
Bad idea. You probably don’t understand the company’s culture yet. “Kicking horse doesn’t work, working horse doesn’t kick” keep your mouth shut and don’t complain, just leave if you don’t like.
You'll be the first for layoff consideration next time that comes around.
This would be a very dangerous move. Remember that your employment is at will. Management might tell you that you will get a raise of 50% and fire you two weeks later. Once you've decided to leave just leave.
If you are determined to leave, counter it and leave anyway!
In most cases it won't do you any good, regardless which company you are with. Negotiation with current company this way only motivates the current current to find your replacement.
Very, very few. If you’re in a critical position it could happen, but out of the dozens of people I know that have left, only one was countered but decided to leave anyway.