10 Reasons for NOT Accepting a Counter Offer

If the urge to accept a counteroffer hits you, keep on cleaning out your desk as you count your blessings. If you don’t believe me, take a moment and read over these 10 reasons for NOT accepting a counter offer before you accept it:

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

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

3. When promotion time comes around, your employer will remember who was loyal and who wasn’t.

4. Once the word gets out, the relationship that you now enjoy with your coworkers will never be the same. You will lose the personal satisfaction of peer-group acceptance.

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

6. Your company will immediately start looking for a new person at a lower starting salary.

7. When times get tough, your employer will begin the cutbacks with you.

8. Accepting a counter offer is an insult to your intelligence and a blow to your personal pride (i.e., knowing that you were bought).

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

10. Statistics show that if you accept a counter offer, the probability of your voluntarily leaving in six months or being let go within one year is extremely high.