Complacency is complicity

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Me too. And then i watched it again with sound! 🤦‍♀️

Look for a better job cuz mine is not great but it’s something

I think there are two paths:

• unsolicited. I put in my notice, boss asks how much I’m getting offered and makes a counteroffer.
• solicited. I get an offer and let my boss know a company is offering X and ask if they’ll give Y.

I think the line of thinking of intentionally trying to get a counteroffer is that if you get a counter offer you could take it to the new employer and try to get them to match. In a worker’s market that might get you some more money but in a employer’s market your only real choice is to go with the new employer. Does it hurt to ask? Maybe not, but id rather not risk it since at that stage you’ve already informed your boss of the new job offer so if anything goes wrong, your old employer is still going to start looking for a replacement.

Ofc, at the time salary is discussed you are talking with HR so it’s slightly less risk, but they still might have a candidate #2 and #3 on standby.

Never take the counter offer though. Take the new gig. If your employer didn’t value you they arent going to suddenly start. They are just buying time to find a replacement.

I’m sure someone will fill the need to tell me of the 1% times it works out but in general it’s almost always better to take the new gig.

How we messed up

The most major failing on our part is, of course, that we didn’t announce the migration beforehand.

No, your major failing isn’t that you didn’t “announce” it, it’s that you didn’t consult your community first. Your actions have demonstrated that you think you own the community, but communities don’t belong to mods.

Moreover you have clearly spelled out that your ideological differences are because you don’t want to “entertain trolls” which i can only assume means you want to ban people whose identities you deem invalid.

Frankly, get off your high horse. 196 isn’t some serfdom. It was a community. You seem to have forgotten that.