[praptak]

> It's also messy and expensive to counter offer once a resignation letter has been sent.

Not to mention that accepting a counter offer is a bad move. The offer might just be to keep you until they find a cheaper replacement. Even if that is not the case you will be perceived as risky - no investment in you, first to fire during tough times.

On top of that it perpetuates the crappy tactic "pay peanuts until they threaten to leave". Nope, counteroffers are for suckers.

[betenoire]

What do you mean "accepting counter offers is a bad move"? What would be the point of negotiating then?

Is this referring to a counter offer after threatening to quit, a counter offer during the hiring process, or both?

[hfsktr]

I would assume after threatening to leave.

Here's a thread from a while ago discussing counter offers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4970843

From what I gather when you dislike it enough to quit you start to resent little things. No more free coffee, no vacation, too many hours, office politics/culture. Not the money.

Not always the case but when you get to the tipping point it's because things went too far already.

[betenoire]

That makes sense to me, once I've decided to move on, I'm done: it's not about the money at that point. But since the article was about job offers, and so were most of the comments, I thought I may have missed something.