11 Reasons for NOT Accepting a Counter Offer

1.  What type of  person do you work for if you have to threaten to resign before they promise to give you what you’re really worth – either now or in the future,

2. Where is the money/position for the counter offer coming from? Is it just your next pay rise/promotion come early?  All companies have strict wage and salary/promotion guidelines, which must be followed.

3.  If your superior gives you a pay rise/promotion to keep you, it is the maximum they have been forced to go to as compared to your new position, which is only their starting point.

4.  Your superior will now keep an eye on the market for another person, at a cheaper price.

5.  You have now made your superior aware that you are unhappy.  From this day on, your loyalty will always be in question.

6.  When promotion time comes around, your superior will remember who was loyal and who wasn’t.

7.  When times get tough, your employer will begin the cutback with you.

8.  The same circumstances that have now caused you to consider a change will repeat themselves in the future, even if you accept a counter offer.

9.  Statistics show that if you accept a counter offer, the probability of voluntarily leaving in six months or being let go within one year is extremely high.

10. Accepting a counter offer is an insult to your intelligence and a blow to your personal pride, knowing that you were ‘bought.’ You are about to be free on your own terms,  now they want to ‘own’ you on theirs.

     11. Once word gets out, the relationship that you now enjoy with your co-workers will never be the same.  You will lose the personal satisfaction of peer group acceptance.