Employers do you get mad when someone accepts a job that goes back on the offer

[DesertNole]

you'll regret the decision and in 6 months you will be gone, 1 year max. whatever dissatisfaction that led you to interviewing elsewhere will come back in full force at your current job once the euphoria of your pay bump diminishes and, frankly, you should have been asking yourself why your current employer didn't think you were worth "something better" before you went in to resign

not to mention your current employer will remember how close you were to leaving so if it comes down to you and someone else for a promotion, guess who gets the job? and if it's down to you and another to be laid off, guess who is on unemployment? best thing you can do at this point is hitch your wagon to your current boss that got you the counter offer because if he leaves the company or your division I guarantee you will be the odd man out.

worst thing anyone can ever do in their career is accept a counter.

Spot on....I think the stat is about 75% of people that accept a counter and remain at current job are gone within 6 months.

 

[MattyMatt]

Spot on....I think the stat is about 75% of people that accept a counter and remain at current job are gone within 6 months.

I agree. The writing on the wall just becomes thicker...

 

[HarryCaray]

Spot on....I think the stat is about 75% of people that accept a counter and remain at current job are gone within 6 months.

I agree. The writing on the wall just becomes thicker...

I am in my current position as a result of having accepted a counter one year ago.

So count me in the minority I guess.

I doubled my pay, I work from home now, and I couldn't be happier. Ownership saw it my way and realized they needed a realignment. The guy who was head of our HR at the time lost his job over almost losing me.

So it's not always so cut and dry. There are happy endings.

 

[MattyMatt]

I am in my current position as a result of having accepted a counter one year ago.

So count me in the minority I guess.

I doubled my pay, I work from home now, and I couldn't be happier. Ownership saw it my way and realized they needed a realignment. The guy who was head of our HR at the time lost his job over almost losing me.

So it's not always so cut and dry. There are happy endings.

I'm not totally in on this. It just sounded to me like he wanted out anyways, and is an hourly employee. But, who knows, as the reasons stated still haven't been mentioned by the OP.

 

[HarryCaray]

I'm not totally in on this. It just sounded to me like he wanted out anyways, and is an hourly employee. But, who knows, as the reasons stated still haven't been mentioned by the OP.

Yeah, there are a lot of variables. Just saying it's not necessarily as cut and dry as some are making it sound.

 

[KingofNicotine]

Turns out that less than 2 months later I am gone. I took back the old job offer. My current employer was sending me to work out of town on a regular basis, something that was not part of any agreement when I started working there. When they gave me a raise to stay they kept me working in town but after a couple of weeks it was back to the same old thing and now that I had gotten a raise they felt like I should work out of town as much as they wanted. I took initiative and decided to get out of that situation.

 

[MikeB]

Hope it works out for you boss.