My advice is to always take money out of the equation.
Ignore salary, imagine they both pay the same, put both jobs side by side. Which is more appealing?
Sound advice, that. However I've tried to not consider the money and I'm still coming up a little lost. It's a mix of comfort vs responsibility but since my current employer is looking into a package that could offer me, I might have the best of both worlds if I stay.
Also what aren't you happy about in the contract? I'm successfully had clauses etc altered or even removed.
The contract and initial e-mail from the company wasn't welcoming at all, very harsh and abrupt in tone. It's only a relatively small/medium enterprise, 100 staff and £10m annual turnover. No need for it to be clinical in my eyes. Bearing in mind the position I've been successful for is finance manager over 3 members of staff and the only person I report to is the owner.
I've gone down from 25 to 20 days holiday and now I've got to use 3 days for Christmas as it closes, which I normally don't use for that purpose.
Every third Friday I have to stay late into the evening, for basically undisclosed reasons, (read 'just because'). I contested it saying I would be more than happy to stay late every night of the week should the job require it, but an arbitrary requirement to stay late every third Friday seems bonkers. She wouldn't amend it.
There's a few other things also which smelt fishy to me, you know when you get a negative vibe? That's how I feel.
Yea, I'd agree with
@AHarvey most people are looking to move for more reasons than just money. If not, sure slap on some pounds, but I'd imagine it's not the case.
I'd be curious to know what you're not happy with in the contract too?
As above really mate. Definitely trying to keep money out of the equation, difficult too remove it completely however. We're all creatures of bias.
