My employer is forcing me out by making work miserable. I have a job offer – should I take it?
I need some advice on whether to leave my current job for a new opportunity. Here’s the situation:
My company recently got new management who are restructuring my department. My subordinate left 2 months ago, and now they want me to take on her responsibilities in addition to more mundane, thankless support tasks for the team that nobody else wants to do. And if I don’t accept their “offer”, they said I can just stay until the end of the year to get my bonus and then leave.
It’s basically downgrading my role. Plus, they’re bringing in someone new (a former subordinate of the new boss) to take over projects I wanted to lead.
I’ve been looking around, because I haven’t been seeing a future here or any plans to develop me. I got a new job offer, but it has some drawbacks:
The pay bump isn’t great. Looking just at the base salary, the new offer is a bit more per month than I make now. But my current annual total pay including the yearly bonus, when broken down monthly, is about the same as the new job’s monthly amount
The location is farther, but work from home (hybrid) flexibility helps. (My current employer also has the same hybrid arrangement)
The new job’s health insurance doesn’t cover kids.
Leaving now means losing my year-end bonus in a couple months if I stayed.
Since I’d join late in the year, I’d miss the raise and bonus cycle until halfway through next year.
The new title and growth outlook seems better than my current dead-end job though. The offer isn’t ideal, but I’m inclined to take it and escape my current toxic workplace. It just doesn’t sit right with me to lose out on that bonus and the small raise.
Maybe I’m just looking for arguments could help convince me I’m doing the right thing…
What other factors would make you abandon a job with good benefits?
Netizen’s comments
I’ll just attempt to paraphrase based off the information you have provided and hopefully provides you with more clarity to decide on your next steps:
- The overall compensation package is better in your company when taking into consideration the health insurance.
- You save travel time to and fro your current workplace whenever you have to report to office. You can do the math to work out how much time you save in a year versus the new job.
- Someone else is coming in to relieve you of your projects. You may feel that you are losing out on opportunities to display your capabilities, hampering your career development even though your workload will decrease (maybe offset by the “mundane” stuffs which you would be taking on) .
- You retain your salary & title while covering your subordinate duties and the “thankless” and “mundane” support tasks. Now nobody likes shitty and thankless jobs, but remember your subordinate performed some of those tasks with a lower pay and title before he/she left. Sometimes leaving behind a bruised ego allows a person to see things clearer and identify new opportunities.
- Nothing in life is predictable. The restructuring may present new opportunities in the long run while the new job may be a cesspool in disguise.