Reasons For Not Accepting A Counter Offer
By Marty Robinson, CTC, CPC, President, Travel Career Network, Ltd.

1. What type of company do you work for if you have to threaten to resign before they give you what you are worth?

2. Where is the money for the counter offer coming from? Is it your next raise early? All companies have strict wage and salary guidelines that must be followed.

3. Your company will immediately start looking for a new person at a lesser salary.

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

5. When promotion time comes around, your employer will remember who was loyal, and who was not.

6. When times get rough, your employer will begin the cutback with you.

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

8. 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.

9. Accepting a counter offer is an insult to your intelligence and a blow to your personal pride; knowing you were bought.

10. Once the 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.

11. Decent and well-managed companies don't make counter offers. Their policies are fair and equitable. They will not be subject to "counter offer coercion" or what they perceive as blackmail.