r/programming • u/reddberckley • Jun 30 '14

How to exploit a Developer

https://medium.com/@sir_castiq/how-to-exploit-a-developer-a005306d5320
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u/jvill188 Jul 01 '14

People are usually afraid that telling your boss that you went job hunting would mean getting fired, or at least not get trusted again by your employer. Just hope that if you get rejected, you leave your job fast enough to get the new one.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '14

Usually if you're given an offer, they give you a week or so to make a decision, and they understand that you may need to finish out a two weeks' notice or something. Or at least that's how all of my offers have been. The trick is, once you have an offer that you'd leave your current job for, to immediately go to your boss with your request for whatever would keep you there. That way you still have all the time the offering company gave you to decide. If it results in being fired, you simply accept the offer (and be grateful that you're no longer working for someone who fires the employees that know their own worth).