Has anyone reversed a decision to accept a position?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i got a counter-offer (two VPs flew down separately to talk to me), and a 50% raise when i had put in my resignation and accepted another offer that was only a 5% raise. (we had been told our department was being closed after an acquisition.)

it was weird but worth it. HR at the other company kept a grudge tho.

So - your employer told you they were closing your department, you went and found another job, and then what? Did they keep your department open or just move you to another role?

they moved me to another team; apparently they had intended to give new positions to most of us but just... failed to mention it? i told them they were idiots if they thought competent folk were just going to passively sit and wait just to be told they didn't have a job, and that they needed to actually talk to everyone they wanted to keep or else they would also be out the door.