Worker Quits After Years of Inadequate Pay, Boss Offers to Double Salary on the Spot

“After refusing a raise, my boss offered to double my salary after submitting notice” posted by u/ApprehensiveDoggo

The comment section

“He seems like a good boss. So rare to have people like this.” said u/ChubbyNemo1004.

“Which is a shame because what he did makes complete business sense. Replacing a good employee almost always always costs more than retention.” said u/Kaiisim.

“Tell them you won't believe the counter-offer is genuine unless its in writing. Then, give copies of the written offer to your team-mates and still take the new job.” said u/series_hybrid.

“I just suddenly pictured OP walking down the hall like regina george, tossing hundreds of copies in the air” said u/Simple-Active-2159.

"I was a middle manager at a place I used to work at. Upper management was such a shit show that my middle manager peers just kept quitting one after another. Rather than replace them those job responsibilities kept getting shifted to me. I finally had enough and went to the COO and said I didn't mind the added responsibility but they had to give me a promotion and pay me accordingly. Even doing that they still saved money because they didn't plan on replacing the jobs that people had quit. They told me no. Basically their reasoning was: they can make me do all those jobs anyway and not have to pay me more or promote me and essentially, 'there's nothing you can really do about it.' I had been looking for another job for a while. Finally I got what I was looking for. I went back to the COO and told him I had another job offer, this is what they are paying, and match it along with the title promotion and I'll stay. That was Friday. I was told they'd get back to me Monday by lunch. Monday morning I get called into the COO's office and told, 'We're going to pass on giving you a raise." Then very smugly this dickhead says to me, “I don't think you have another job offer. You can go back to work now.' The look on this guy's face when I pulled out my letter of resignation is one I will not forget for the rest of my life. I should have just quit that day, but I did stay for two weeks to make the transition as smooth as possible for the people taking over my responsibilities. And for those next two weeks this asshole did nothing but try to get out of me what company I was leaving them for. It felt so good to have this power of him considering how much of a control freak he was.” said u/plasmac9.

“Agreed, however feel free to boast about how much they were willing to pay to keep you while in ear shot of your colleagues. If they're also getting 55k and ‘suddenly’ they found the money to boost your pay they can use that as leverage (or find another job knowing they're underpaid). It's win-win, and frankly the worst they could do is fire you and you're on the way out already.” said u/Gr8NonSequitur.

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