TEN REASONS FOR
NOT ACCEPTING A COUNTER OFFER

• What type of company do you work for if you have to threaten to resign before they give you what you are worth?
  
  
• Where is the money for the counteroffer coming from? Is it your next raise?
  
  
• Once you accept a counteroffer, your company will immediately start looking for a "cheaper person".
  
  
• You have now made your employer aware that you are unhappy. From now on, your loyalty will always be in question.
  
  
• When promotion time comes around, your employer will remember who was loyal, and who wasn't.
  
  
• When times get tough, your employer will begin the cutback with you.
  
  
• The same circumstances that now cause you to consider a change will repeat themselves in the future; even if you accept a counteroffer.
  
  
• Statistics show that if you accept a counteroffer, the probability of voluntarily leaving in six months or being let go within a year is extremely high.
  
  
• Accepting a counteroffer is insulting to your intelligence and a blow to your personal pride... knowing that you were bought.
  
  
• When the word gets out, the relationships you now enjoy with your co-workers will never be the same. You will lose the satisfaction of peer group acceptance.