IOC is always way too harsh on Russia.

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Any given Sunday…er Saturday?

Where I work, we get a bucket of money (say 3% of current salaries for your team) and the leader divides it up as they see fit. Yes, our HR system provides guidelines given each associates salary grade and performance score, but each leader has the final decision. I work for a F100 company by the way.

Yes, that’s the risk you take.

I knew what my friend/colleague was offered in the counter offer. I walked in to my bosses office on Monday morning (counter offer was made on Friday late afternoon) and told my boss “so I guess the only way to get a decent raise around here is to start interviewing elsewhere?” He knew exactly what I was referring to and asked to me give him until Wednesday to make a decision. Wednesday morning, me and two others received pay raises consistent with the guy who got the first counter offer. The one counter offer ended costing them 4 times more.

I don’t doubt what you’re saying and it may work out sometimes. But I’ve also seen someone accept an offer and his boss (my equal) give him lower than normal raises the next 3 years. The bosses comments during our annual performance calibration and merit increase discussions was that this associate already makes more than others in his pay grade so he taking some of his merit increase and giving it to others on his team to help “level” pay.

100% this. Accepting counter offers could easily breed contention with your current employer. Take the new role, but don’t burn any bridges at your current place. You never know when you may want to return.

On a side note, I’ve seen it from the other side too. One of my colleagues received a counter-offer to stay at the company we worked at. Needless to say, he told a couple of us and we were pissed that he got such a big pay raise by interviewing elsewhere. So three us went to our bosses and told them that if it takes an offer elsewhere, then that’s what we’ll do. They asked us to wait for a couple days before doing anything and ended up giving us all raises. Between that raise and my standard merit increase 4 months later, I got a 26% increase that year.

IMO, counter offers are usually bad for everyone involved. Pay the people what they are worth and if they decide to chase money elsewhere, wish them the best of luck.

I have 6 Eufy cameras set up around my home. How do I get in on the impending class action lawsuit. Just kidding about the lawsuit, but I am disheartened to read this. I specifically chose Eufy because I didn’t want my videos stored on a cloud. I wanted complete control over where they are stored.

Enjoy sitting at home for the next 4 years collecting millions of dollars each year…loser.

I dream of getting fired like this.