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7 April 2025, 15:04
2025-04-07
You can't leave if you don't stay. HR generalist told how she wanted to quit, but stayed. Why she changed her mind and how other IT workers feel about such hesitations
HRG at Laser Estetics Adelina Khatsenko recently decided to quit and during a short search even received several great offers for herself. However, the employer did not want to let the specialist go and in the end she stayed. Have IT specialists been in such situations and what did they decide at the crossroads? They shared their thoughts under Adelina’s post.
HRG at Laser Estetics Adelina Khatsenko recently decided to quit and during a short search even received several great offers for herself. However, the employer did not want to let the specialist go and in the end she stayed. Have IT specialists been in such situations and what did they decide at the crossroads? They shared their thoughts under Adelina’s post.
«We talked for a long time, discussed the possible and the impossible, and came to the conclusion, 'Why should we lose each other?'.....I stayed,» the specialist recalls. She admits that, although she was «stinging for a while,» she stayed without any doubts. Which IT specialists supported this approach, and which did not consider it correct, and here’s why.
Who is «FOR»?
Natalia Didus, UX/UI Designer
I’m resigning. And we had several conversations with the manager, where they convinced me to stay. But I’m still leaving because I don’t feel comfortable in the position I’m working in. In short, everyone has their own priorities and reasons. If your needs and requirements are met, then why not stay. I don’t see anything wrong with that. We have people in the company who left and returned after a while. This is normal, the main thing is not to burn bridges.
Andriy Kravchun, Recruiter
Congratulations. It’s really cool when a company understands that it’s better not to lose you and encourages you to keep working. For example, I’m very motivated and inspired by the fact that I’m valued at work.
Mykola Stepanets, QA Engineer
I once tried to see what would happen if I refused the offer and stayed.
After a year and a half, they raised my salary to the amount they offered me in the offers, and onboarding for new tasks was done two years later than agreed.
There is no longer any desire to check the test case «what will happen if we believe HR and the manager».
Who is «AGAINST»?
Oleksandr Izmailov, UX/UI Designer
Congratulations, you have weakened your position in the company. This is a clear sign of fear and insecurity in your abilities.
Igor Khomyak, Senior Java Software Development Engineer in Test
If you decide to go, go. Now the attitude towards you will be different, and the problems that made you want to change jobs will not disappear. You will still come back to the idea of moving in a few months.
Victoria Verbenko, HR manager at Kernel
They will look for a replacement for you. The fact that you were left for a while is temporary. Get ready.
Sofia Demyanovska, Senior QA Engineer
It seems to me that the decision to leave is definitely a point of no return. People don’t just go into instability, interviews, and the uncertainty of a new job. That is, if the brain has already made the decision to leave, then most likely it was irrevocably bad. A business does not change from one conversation, because a business is a huge structure that has been created for years, and one employee cannot be a transformer of change. As I have determined for myself, if there is a tendency towards depreciation, unrealistic deadlines, salary increases in the form of «prove why you are valuable,» etc., then this trend will only worsen.
Vitaliy Mazurenok, Senior Manual QA Engineer at LiveXP
It happened and it was a mistake. If you decide to go, you have to go.
Instead of a conclusion
Head of IT Department Tetyana considers people to be the company’s key resource. That is why she emphasizes that it is important for a specialist, in addition to reviewing their salary, to hear an assessment of their work, to feel that they are truly important to the company and not just wasting their time.
«My opinion is that the company should want people to work for it more, rather than people having to look for a job in another company. It should create conditions that make people want to devote their time and energy to the development of the company,» the expert added, emphasizing that in Adelina’s case, this does not happen often.
However, there is another side of the coin — even with a positive resolution of the issue, the residue from such situations remains with everyone. This is what Head of growth Olga Bocharova believes. According to her, it would be good if the employee first discussed everything that does not suit him with the employer, and if the shortcomings were not corrected, then looked for a new job and went for interviews. «But you went for interviews to make sure that you still deserve it, and then with confirmation of this go and defend your rights,» Olga addressed the author of the post.
According to the expert, in such a situation, the difficulties may be:
The new company is in a slump due to the employee’s refusal, and possibly the loss of other candidates.
The employer is worried that the employee might leave them, and they won’t know why, because if he doesn’t say anything, then everything is okay for them.
For the employee, this is a possibility of the situation repeating itself after some time, because if the issue was money, then over time it will become insufficient again.
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