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you're name's likely to get further up the redundancy list than you'd probably like.

Playing the devil's advocate, here's employee response which makes sense from his/her perspective:

But I have job offer paying 30% more. I could actually get multiple offers like that from several companies. So I am not afraid of your threat of "getting further up the redundancy list".



Then it's in both parties interest for the employee to leave.. everyone is happy at the end, provided the employer can replace the worker, and the former can get a better option.


Yes. Hence why it's the best way to get a big raise to keep your salary in sync with the market and not stagnate. I was just trying to push against the idea that somehow it's wrong to accept a job offer which offers substantially bigger salary. Nothing wrong with that.




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