Anonymous wrote:OP, if you do accept the new job, could you maybe buy $100 gift cards for all your former co-workers, or maybe pay for a really nice catered dinner in a fun restaurant, put together swag bags with earbuds, gift cards, etc.?

This is complete insanity.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, if you do accept the new job, could you maybe buy $100 gift cards for all your former co-workers, or maybe pay for a really nice catered dinner in a fun restaurant, put together swag bags with earbuds, gift cards, etc.?

WTF? No, people are allowed to change jobs even after a short stint. This is a horrible idea and laughable.

Why, PP? OP has a real opportunity to show the team how much working together meant to her and if she's able to keep the costs in the $2K-4K range why not?

You are the weirdest troll ever.

Anonymous wrote:OP, if you do accept the new job, could you maybe buy $100 gift cards for all your former co-workers, or maybe pay for a really nice catered dinner in a fun restaurant, put together swag bags with earbuds, gift cards, etc.?

This is insane.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, if you do accept the new job, could you maybe buy $100 gift cards for all your former co-workers, or maybe pay for a really nice catered dinner in a fun restaurant, put together swag bags with earbuds, gift cards, etc.?

WTF? No, people are allowed to change jobs even after a short stint. This is a horrible idea and laughable.

Why, PP? OP has a real opportunity to show the team how much working together meant to her and if she's able to keep the costs in the $2K-4K range why not?

Anonymous wrote:OP, if you do accept the new job, could you maybe buy $100 gift cards for all your former co-workers, or maybe pay for a really nice catered dinner in a fun restaurant, put together swag bags with earbuds, gift cards, etc.?

WTF? No, people are allowed to change jobs even after a short stint. This is a horrible idea and laughable.

You always need to look out for yourself, but I’ll offer this:

1. Try to avoid completely burning bridges if you get the other job by going above and beyond to leave your current portfolio wrapped up and draft a transition memo, etc. so nobody is left scrambling. Offer to be a resource to the current supervisor/team following the transition.

2. Recognize that you will be the last one in/first one out if they reorg, etc. We had someone from our team trade up to another department, and then they lost their job in less than a year because they were the newest member of the department. Had they stayed put, they wouldn’t have been let go.

Do what is best for you. Your former company did what was best for them.

As for this company, they will now know not to hire someone overqualified, due to layoffs, as they'll look to leave at the first real opportunity.

That is fine, but for those who are now unemployed and out in the market, this is why some/many of you will be passed over for others, who are less experiences and on the upward climb, not downward.

In the current climate, I feel less guilty about doing what's best for me. Do what's best for you.

Anonymous wrote:OP: Thanks, all. I think I mostly feel bad because a connection from my former company connected me to my current employer. (She worked here like ten years ago.) It feels super shitty to be like "Hey, thanks for helping me get this job! Anyway I left after barely a year."

But, I do think it's true what someone said, I did take what was available at the time. If I hadn't been laid off from my old job, I wouldn't have even applied to my current job.

I'm getting ahead of myself, it's not like I've even been offered a job. But it does give me pause.

Remember, she worked there as well, so she knows how much of a dumpster fire they are, and she left as well.

It was a port in a storm and has served its purpose. It's perfectly fine to sail away when you get the opportunity.

Take the new job - you are not a POS and it sounds like your current company got value out of you. If your current company was losing money they would not hesitate to lay you off.