• Wanderer@lemm.ee
    2·
    5 months ago

    Yes you should take it, if you got no other options.

    Then you immediately update your CV with your new job title and jump ship for more pay. If the orginal company offers to match the pay you say “you had the chance to pay me more. If you valued me that much, you could have paid me that much from the start”

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      I cannot understand why this is so hard to get. People on here whining about their employer using them. Well, yes they are. Use them back. It’s just business, it’s expected on both sides of the table.

      Last three times I jumped, I increased my pay by $12 -> $22 -> $32. I could go again, but I’m kinda fat, happy and lazy ATM.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      Don’t go back on your intent to leave for a better job. Some employers will see you as disloyal if you take the raise and stay. You’re usually better off leaving anyway.

      • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        There is rarely a situation where you should allow your employer to match the offer you have in hand.

        They had the opportunity to do so and then failed to properly retain you. If they realize how much losing you will cost them in productivity, that’s on them, not you.

        It’s not personal. It’s literally business.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
        1·
        5 months ago

        Yep. Soon as you commit to looking, you commit to leaving.

        I told my last supervisor about every interview I was on; how it went, what I thought, etc. After a year I left abruptly (ie the pace at which they’d fire me). They were surprised, even after I’d been telling my supe about my hunting for a year.