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Originally Posted by Shinjuku
Why is it that employers always wait till you say you're leaving before they start proclaiming all the love they have for you and promising various opportunities/promotions!? 
Handed my notice in on friday afternoon, to which my director gave me the "we really don't want to lose you...what can we do to keep you...wish you'd spoken to us earlier..."
My company's got a UAE office, and they're now gonna try and tempt me to stay within the company with an offer and internal transfer when i go back into the office on monday morning. 
Under normal cirsunstances this might be great, but this really just complicate matters...<sigh!> |
Tell me about it! At least your director was nice to you; my old line manager tried the bullying tactic and when that didn't work, decided to be nasty to me - not that I cared and I think she quickly realised that yours truly was paying her no attention and that she was wasting her breath! Employers always think that you will never leave and seem to think that it's acceptable to refuse you a higher offer until you decide to leave. At that point, you get promised the earth, the sun and the moon - whether you actually get it, is a completely different story!
My advice is that if you have handed in your resignation, you walk out the door. Else, your manager will lose respect for you and you will always be known as the one that almost left. I look at it from the point of view of why it took a resignation letter for a better offer to come along! Why didn't they offer a better package before if they knew you deserved it! Loyalty works both ways!
The choice is yours but sometimes change is good!