Ask, and Ye Shall Receive

[Vonkhan]

I've been working with my present company since last May and it's been great.

A few weeks ago, a former employee of my company who had since joined a competitor approached me with a job offer. I wasn't very interested - until a week ago I finally had a formal interview and on Monday, they offered me the job with a 20% increase in what I'm making now.

I was torn between staying - I love it here - I'd look like a job hopper on my resume - my boss is cool - flex hours etc. But then the other company was a better known, global one ...

Today morning, I came to work early to talk to my boss before anyone else got in. Within 2 hours of our talk, she had spoken to the VP of our dept. and made me a counter offer:

24% raise
3 weeks vacation (up from 2)
Get me into the bonus pool early
$2500 for me to invest in stocks (provided that I pass the exam given by our parent company - a financial group, it's complicated to explain)

I'm still recovering ...



Cliffs:
Rival company offered me 20% bump in pay
Boss offers me 24% raise + goodies
Yay!

 

[Ns1]

awesome, grats!

 

[KLin]

Very nice :thumbsup:

 

[Dacalo]

:beer:

Congrats!

 

[oogabooga]

can you speak with my boss next?
congrats :beer:

 

[Canai]

:beer: Congrats!

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: Vonkhan
I've been working with my present company since last May and it's been great.

A few weeks ago, a former employee of my company who had since joined a competitor approached me with a job offer. I wasn't very interested - until a week ago I finally had a formal interview and on Monday, they offered me the job with a 20% increase in what I'm making now.

I was torn between staying - I love it here - I'd look like a job hopper on my resume - my boss is cool - flex hours etc. But then the other company was a better known, global one ...

Today morning, I came to work early to talk to my boss before anyone else got in. Within 2 hours of our talk, she had spoken to the VP of our dept. and made me a counter offer:

24% raise
3 weeks vacation (up from 2)
Get me into the bonus pool early
$2500 for me to invest in stocks (provided that I pass the exam given by our parent company - a financial group, it's complicated to explain)

I'm still recovering ...



Cliffs:
Rival company offered me 20% bump in pay
Boss offers me 24% raise + goodies
Yay!

Awesome!

Last time I had one of those talks I got "Oh man, you should take it - we can't come close to that..."

Turns out I did take it, and I've been happier since, but hey

 

[Dacalo]

Originally posted by: rivan

Awesome!

Last time I had one of those talks I got "Oh man, you should take it - we can't come close to that..."

Turns out I did take it, and I've been happier since, but hey

Hah! At least they were frank with you.

 

[Mo0o]

Nice. That's strong negotiating skills and it looks like you handled it perfectly

 

[rasczak]

Congrats!! :thumbsup:

 

[maziwanka]

score!

 

[Kelemvor]

Did you tell your current boss why you were asking for a raise? If so, they might flag you as wanting to leave and start looking for your replacement and just use that bonus to keep you around until they can find one. Hopefully that's not the case though...

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

I wonder if they know you spend most of your time neffing on ATOT? Congrats on the raise!

 

[videogames101]

Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
I wonder if they know you spend most of your time neffing on ATOT? Congrats on the raise!

We don't need to tell his boss that though, now do we?

 

[ScottFern]

Lucky SOB!

 

[austin316]

Originally posted by: Kelemvor
Did you tell your current boss why you were asking for a raise? If so, they might flag you as wanting to leave and start looking for your replacement and just use that bonus to keep you around until they can find one. Hopefully that's not the case though...

not really. if your boss likes you and you do a great job (which I would assume is the case with a 24% raise) they want to keep you and don't want to replace you.

 

[Aharami]

wow that's freaking sweet! congrats!

 

[Glavinsolo]

Counter offers are notoriously just to keep you until they can properly train someone else to replace you. But if this isn't the case congratulations!

 

[FP]

Nice work. Congrats.

 

[Vonkhan]

Thanks all I'm still a bit giddy over all this - esp. with my gf due in Sep.

I doubt that they're baiting just to keep me here since I'm kind of mission critical (for the lack of a better phrase) for advertising & the only one in the NYC office who has the tech. expertise - namely media intelligence/research which is pretty niche field (deals with Nielsen's and the like). Going to keep my fingers crossed tho!

 

[GRHawk]

Congrats OP,

Made me think of todays Dilbert:

Dilbert