I got a little jaded at work (the normal officer politics stuff), so I started doing less work, and reaching out to recruiters.

My boss noticed I was having a go, reached out and offered a raise and a new computer. I told him I'd have to research market value for the raise.

In the mean time I got an offer for 50% more than what I'm making now. I'm heading to him today with my research in writing. Either way I'm getting that raise!

Insist the new computer has Office Politics Filter 2022 installed

Definitely keep us posted!!

How did he notice u searching for jobs? If its linkedin, before announcing that u are looking for a job I would block all connected employees in my connections list.

I guess you are one of the pillars of the company

I had a similar experience. I got a 15% pay rise which I knew still kept me under market value even though its a good percentage. I've always been kept under market value despite having multiple pay rises like that over the last 4 years.

After being told that, I got in touch with a company who I'd spoken to before and now joining them for 27% above the pay rise amount.

I told my manager that if my company had just given me the 30% that my manager had requested instead of the 15%, I wouldn't have looked anywhere else.

They were then scrambling to keep me and offered me 15% above that 27%, which is above the original 15% payrise and a promotion. I said no to that out of the principal that it was way above what they would pay someone in the same role. I just wanted a fair wage.

Moral of the story: pay your staff fairly.

@AnxiousADHDGuy he didn't notice me searching, he noticed me being burned out

@Banele here's the update. The CEO told me to take the job. The COO and VP of engineering are scrambling to make a counter offer now. Nobody remembered that I built all of the cloud infrastructure using k8s (because it was a cool sounding term...) And nobody knows how to operate it but me.

In the mean time I've accepted the other offer. They have to the 12th to get me a reasonable offer and an apology from the CEO.

Startups... Lol.