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Posted by LSURussian I've had several employees come to me with your situation, telling me they have a job offer paying more. Every time I've said, "You should take it. We'll miss you." The ones who came back to me and said they wanted to stay I just told them "Sorry, we've moved on and you should, too."

Seems like a dick move

I've made a few moves and once or twice I really did want to stay put but I also knew I couldn't pass up the pay increase being offered. However each time I had prepared myself to leave if the current employer didn't want to match. I was never once told to pack my shite.

I assume it varies depending on the job and the industry but in my industry it's not uncommon at all for guys to use leverage and the managers know it. They also know that good help is hard to find and expensive to keep so they don't seem to mind that it happens.

The radio guy was definitely right. Some of the best employees that had been there the longest were the most underpaid by a lot.

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Posted by LSURussian

Member since Feb 2005

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Posted on 7/20/14 at 12:59 pm to Croacka

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Seems like a dick move

And it's not a dick move to use another job offer as leverage to get a raise?? That's the real dick move.

If word gets out and other employees see that all they have to do to get a raise is go find someone to offer them a job which makes the company give them out of cycle raises, you might as well throw out your salary administration structure and just rely on other companies to set your salaries for your employees.

I always had enough confidence we were paying a fair salary to not be blackmailed into giving out raises just because of the OP's situation.

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