THE COUNTER OFFER
Any situation in which an employee is forced to get an outside offer before the present
employer will suggest a raise, promotion or better working conditions, is suspect.
No matter what the company says when making its counter-offer, you will
always be considered at risk. Having once demonstrated your lack of loyalty (for whatever
reason), you will lose your status as a "Team Player" and your place in the
inner circle.
Counter-offers are usually nothing more that stall devices, giving your employer time
to replace you. Your reasons for wanting to leave still exist. Conditions are made a bit
more tolerable in the short term because of a raise; a promotion or promises made to keep
you.
Counter-offers are made in response to a threat to quit. Will you have to solicit an
offer and threaten to quit every time you deserve better working conditions?
Decent well-managed companies don’t make counter-offers…EVER!
Their policies are fair and equitable. They will NOT be subject to "counter-offer
coercion" or what they perceive as blackmail.
