[hinkley]

You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.

What people say they will do for you after you've already said goodbye and what they'll do when you just ask for change are often very different things.

It's one of the reasons they say not to take the counter-offer. Because one day while you're brushing your teeth you realize that if they could cough up that much money or control when you tried to quit, why hadn't they factored that into your previous review, when half as much might have prevented the situation in the first place?