Employee gets offer from rival company, decides to take the job, until current company gets word of it and demands employee stay: ‘Please be joking'

What must an offer letter contain to convince you to leave your job?

One of the biggest "complaints" about the current job market is that people often find themselves stuck in their current jobs, and instead of working hard to move up where they are, they prefer looking for another job with better conditions. People claim that these days, it's a lot easier to find a new job than to move up in their current one. This is why people leave their jobs after one or two years, even though their parents often stayed in the same workplace for 20 or 30 years.

Which leads to the question, what would it take for you to leave your current job for a new one? Is better pay enough? Must the new job have a job title that sounds better than your current one?

The person below posted their success story to Reddit's r/antiwork Subreddit, describing how they managed to get both a pay raise and a promotion, all thanks to one offer letter from a rival company. Originally, they weren't even thinking about leaving their current job; they were happy where they were and knew the future held benefits if they stayed. However, while they were on PTO, a rival company called them up and asked them to interview for a role with them, and out of curiosity, this employee decided to say yes.

The interview led to a job offer and an offer letter, and the offer letter was simply too good to refuse. This led the employee to return to work from their PTO with the intention of handing in their notice. After they did, they were surprised to discover that their current employer was not ready to give them up so easily. Suddenly, this employee had a counteroffer as well, one that made it easy to stay.

Should they accept the counteroffer, or should they move on and accept the new job offer instead? Scroll down to read the full story.

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