Resigning

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by IrishLake

She made some phone calls, and they could not even come close to matching what my new offer was.

Would you have stayed if they had matched it? I think that it's a very bad idea to stay once you've told them you were ready to leave.

[IrishLake]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Would you have stayed if they had matched it? I think that it's a very bad idea to stay once you've told them you were ready to leave.

Not in this case. I had been promised for over a year that I would be brought into a different project management area. I talked to several of the other PMs on a bi-monthly basis about it, and it never went anywhere. They would have had to significantly beat my new offer.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Would you have stayed if they had matched it? I think that it's a very bad idea to stay once you've told them you were ready to leave.

I've been at my company six years since I tried to resign with a better offer (that my current company beat).

I'm nervous about resigning to go to the NY Film Academy. There is a precedence in my position of giving a LOOONG notice. I trained with the outgoing person for six weeks - she trained with the person before her for six months. I'll probably give a month notice. I don't feel more is necessary because there is a woman working part time with me now (my boss' sons' girlfriend/babymama) that could easily put her kid in daycare and go fulltime, and she's learned the essential functions of my job.