Employee leaves $52K job after 3 weeks for a $75K job, enrages manager, who tries to offer her $60K to stay

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  • A woman sitting at a desk with her hands behind her head

    Employee happily sits at her desk after quitting her $52K-a-year job for a new $75K-a-year job.

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  • I left my job after 3 weeks for a much higher salary, and my old manager is upset with me

    Anyway, I just started a new job. In the interview, I told them the lowest I would accept is 60k.

  • They came back with an offer of 52k and swore up and down that this was the absolute top of their budget.

  • I needed the job so I accepted, but honestly, I was not happy at all with either the salary or the 50-minute commute each way every day.

  • Photo of group of people sitting inside of train

    Employees commuting by train to their jobs in the city.

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  • 3 weeks into the job, another company I had interviewed with sent me an offer. This offer was fully remote with a salary of 75k.

  • It was a no-brainer, of course, I accepted immediately. When I told my manager I was resigning, her tone completely changed.

  • At first, she said, "Look, we value you here, let me see if I can get approval for a 60k salary to keep you." I honestly almost laughed out loud.

  • I told her I appreciated that, but the new offer is 23k higher and fully remote, and I know they can't possibly come close to that.

  • She admitted they couldn't, and then got salty. She went on about the effort they put into my onboarding and how I was putting them in a very difficult position.

  • A few weeks later, I noticed she keeps viewing my LinkedIn profile. It seems she was curious to find out where I went, since I didn't tell her.

  • Woman with curly hair working on laptop at desk

    The manager longingly gazes at her former employee's LinkedIn account, remembering how good she had it when she was her employee.

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  • CreativeHandle9429 She shouldve valued you before you left. That's the risk in lowballing your best people.

  • Warped Teacher I had something similar happen once. The former employer was angry and even asked how I could justify leaving after such a short time. I told them that all new employees are on a 90 day probationary period - and that this probationary period worked both ways. They were still ped but I laugh every time I think about it.

  • at-the-crook I noticed she keeps viewing my LinkedIn profile. I'd suggest that you wait a very long time to update your LI page with any new employer info.

  • Redwolflowder They started you out better than her salary, this is why she wants to know where you went. She will be applying there next week.

  • CorrectBluebird5869 Block your old boss.

  • Various_Ocelot5383 Not cool, we work not out of charity but for money. All managers should understand this.

  • tonyortiz Welcome to capitalism. We're mercs. If management doesn't like it they should change the system or pay us what we're worth.

  • SuperGlue_InMyPocket They FAFO'd. Too bad for them.

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