Accepted offer now being counter offered

[Lance]

Ask your current employer to back pay the salary you feel should have gotten, as a lump sum, to the date where first asked for and were refused an increase. eg, if it was 4 years ago, ask for 5% for 1 year, 10% for 2 years, 15% for 3 years, leading to the 20% increase now. You'll take a tax hit (unless they can somehow turn it into shares/options that vest over x years) but if money is the thing that will help you decide, this may sway you into staying.

This is cloud cuckoo land.....

The employer knows full well they cannot stop the OP taking all that lovely cash and then quit anyway.

[Paralytic]

This is cloud cuckoo land.....

The employer knows full well they cannot stop the OP taking all that lovely cash and then quit anyway.

Not if its paid in the form of shares/options that vest over time - effectively golden handcuffs.

Cuckoo.

[cojak]

My guess is that if you stay you'll be viewed by your existing employer as even more of an easy touch than you are now.

And you'll be gone one way or another before the year is out.

[Gibbon]

Go, my view is once you've accepted an offer, its best to go, whether perm or subby. Plus ten years just doing the same old is one path to dementia. Go somewhere new, yes hard but rewarding, get on that learning curve before you find yourself dribbling at your desk.

[Fraidycat]

I resigned and then suddenly current employer counter offers to match plus a bit more.

Did you tell them what your new offer was? If so you should have inflated it to be the very top end level for your experience, skillset location/sector.

[Lance]

Not if its paid in the form of shares/options that vest over time - effectively golden handcuffs.

Cuckoo.

jam tomorrow.....

they might look like handcuffs but they are usually made of tulipe

[northernladuk]

My guess is that if you stay you'll be viewed by your existing employer as even more of an easy touch than you are now.

And you'll be gone one way or another before the year is out.

Totally this and the other post about why stay with someone that's been happy to undervalue you for all this time. My vote is for leaving

[BoggyMcCBoggyFace]

So in the end I didn't accept counter, within minutes of it being formal and starting my 12 weeks notice I get email from HR telling me from that point onwards my IT usage is under enhanced monitoring, every mail, every msg I send / recieve, every website I visit, every file I open / create / delete will be logged and reviewed, they even told me additional software will be installed on my pc to track me and what I'm doing during my notice period. I understand they need to protect there assets but I'm not working in some high security area, apperently this is standard practice here. When I read the mail I knew I had done the right thing leaving.

[Lance]

So in the end I didn't accept counter, within minutes of it being formal and starting my 12 weeks notice I get email from HR telling me from that point onwards my IT usage is under enhanced monitoring, every mail, every msg I send / recieve, every website I visit, every file I open / create / delete will be logged and reviewed, they even told me additional software will be installed on my pc to track me and what I'm doing during my notice period. I understand they need to protect there assets but I'm not working in some high security area, apperently this is standard practice here. When I read the mail I knew I had done the right thing leaving.

refuse to consent to the monitoring. They may well put you on gardening leave.
If they say 'standard practise' again, ask to see the documented process and where it matches your contract. Then refuse anyway.

"breach of privacy. GDRP. blah blah"

[Paralytic]

refuse to consent to the monitoring. They may well put you on gardening leave.
If they say 'standard practise' again, ask to see the documented process and where it matches your contract. Then refuse anyway.

"breach of privacy. GDRP. blah blah"

I cant pretty much guarantee their ability to do this will have been written into the employment contracts. Can be a pretty standard thing for people in their notice period to be monitored, but I've never heard of people being told so bluntly!