#CareerAdvice #JobStruggles #CounterOfferRegrets
Hey everyone, I need some advice here! 🤔
So, I was offered this amazing job doing what I love. But when I put in my two weeks at my current job, they hit me with a counter offer – promising me the world and health benefits. I ended up staying for the health insurance, but now I’m miserable. 😞
Here’s the dilemma:
– Nothing they promised me has materialized
– I’m bored and unfulfilled at work every day
– I dread going in and my mental health is taking a hit
What should I do?
Should I tough it out for the health insurance, or should I cut my losses and move on before it’s too late? 🤷♂️
I still have the keys to the other job, so maybe that’s a sign I should head back there?
What do you guys think? Any advice or similar experiences to share? Let’s chat and help each other out! 🙌
Leave! Go to the new job
“Nothing they promised me has happened”
Then they broke the commitment keeping you there. Leave
Never take the counter offer, it’s like going back to a bad relationship, you wanted to leave for a reason.
Leave. Reach out to the other company if you can & just be honest, the other company countered but you’ve realized you want to move on to newer pastures.
I think many of us learned the lesson about not accepting counter offers the same, exact way that you did. Now you know for the future. See if you can still take the new job.
Have you reached out to someone in HR or discussed with your leadership already? If you are getting the run around, clean the dust off your resume and start looking for a new job quietly. You got an offer once, you will get one again- it’s just matter of time and effort!
Good luck!
I am very anti-counter offer. I would never ever accept one. I also certainly don’t put any faith in corporate promises. If something isn’t in writing, it is unlikely to actually happen.
Did you get the promises in writing?
Your mistake was to accept the counteroffer. With any decision to accept another company’s offer, you’re burning your bridges with your current employer when you give notice. Do not ever be tempted to stay with a promise of better pay. Your current employer already know you have no loyalty to them.
If the other offer is valid, take it. When you drop you’re two weeks, mention that you’re appreciative of their attempts to resolve the issues and retain you but unfortunately the pattern remains unchanged so you’re forced to leave
You won’t be bored when they fire you. Because the ONLY reason they counter offer is to keep you around until they find a replacement. Then the 🔨 falls.
NEVER accept a counter offer. You should go back to the other company and ask for the job again and you should be searching hard for a new job since your company is searching hard for your replacement.
There will always be a multitude of reasons why you even applied/interviewed/entertained the first dea of another job.
Money and benefits are just two possible reasons.
Other reasons are Management, co-workers, fulfilment, work-life balance, job satisfaction, reward, bonuses, location, company culture, etc etc etc
A counter offer will usually fix money, it will rarely fix any other issues you were feeling when you first started looking elsewhere.
Weigh up all the other factors, and realistically, which of them do you think will be solved by the move? The grass isn’t always greener, but sometimes it is.