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Fair_Charity_5368 t1_iycd23c wrote

Reply to comment by mcmpearl in Job offer and counter-offer by peptalks93

I disagree. A company is only going to pay you what you need to bring you on and increase your salary enough to keep you around. Every company could pay their employees more.

I say OP needs to do what they think is best.

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Dragonfire45 t1_iyd08ot wrote

They didn’t even match the counter offer. They stayed 1000 short purposely. No way I’d want to stay with that company. If $1000 is make or break for them, then I wouldn’t expect any raises anytime soon or for them to replace them first chance they get

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Fair_Charity_5368 t1_iydavbe wrote

Yeah ,it's odd to come short by 1 grand at that point. It's almost as if they were intentionally saying, "we won't match it."

I'm not saying it's right, but it's just business.

I don't actually know the statistics, but I would imagine 80% of people just take their 2 percent raise (really not a raise anyway when you account for inflation) and just keep working, it's only the 20 percent that leave, so mathematically it makes more sense to just rehire and retrain the small(er) percentage of people that leave.

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coolbeans31337 t1_iyd0v0w wrote

I agree with this statement. Why would a company pay more than it actually needs to as long as they think their employee is happy enough to stay?

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Fair_Charity_5368 t1_iydb2xa wrote

Yeah, even the employees that complain about it usually still stick around, and management/owners know that most people won't push it beyond that and actually leave.

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