Currently I am taking a Management class at baruch College. It has given me the tools to be a practical professional in a business enviroment. I have always given my best in all my jobs, regardless of any duress that I may be encountering at work. Presently, I work at a place that I am not entirely happy. I have over-bearing bosses with hidden agendas. I have been given a delicate project that will help them in a legal matter. The work is very complicated. It has made me work over the weekends and to long hours of the night on the weeks. This is what I am best at but the opportunity has come accross.
I have been offered a job but I must start right away which means that I will have to stop my project. If I stop the project than the company where I am currently working can become liable for the full extent of the claim which is in the millions. What should I do? The other company, though the position is not on my career path, will pay me more.
On one side, I have my ethics. I cannot leave them to a certain litigation but on the other hand I can increase my salary and make my life easier. Today, I will go to the other job and have a preliminary interview but I need some advice. PLEASE HELP!!! WPX
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There are several possible actions to consider here:
1. Can you discuss this critical situation with the new job, indicate your interest in their position, but tell them that you just cannot ethically leave immediately without causing damage to your current employer? Sometimes it looks even better for you in the new job if you show them you are ethical not wanting to put your current employer in jeopardy. That way they understand you would not do something like that to them either if the situations were reversed. Perhaps they can give you an additional week or 2 during which time you can alert your current employer that they need to make other arrangements on your current project.
2. You can tell your current employer about the other job offer, and give them the opportunity to raise your salary to match the new offer. If they believe your project is that important and you are valuable to it, they could respond by meeting the new offer. This way you are giving them the chance to say 'no thanks' and you are relieved of any ethical concern that you are leaving them in trouble. They will have made the decision for you.
3. You could take the new offer, but try to negotiate an arrangement with your current employer to continue working on this project on a consulting basis until it is completed. This would mean you could offer to work for them on weekends, nights, etc. as a consultant. Extra work (and money) for you and you can make both happy if they are wiling to consider this. Again your current employer can say no thanks and you are relieved.
4. Most importantly, are you unhappy at your current job? Why are you getting offers to work elsewhere? Were you looking? If your heart tells you it is time to go to better yourself, then you might want to listen to that. All is fair in business. They can always counter-offer if they are that m,uch in trouble by your leaving. On the other hand, if this new job offer came out of nowhere you should think about how secure this new pace is versus your current place and make your decision accordingly.
Good luck!
--prof K
Thank you EBK and it has been good suggestions in your part. I am sorry that I have not been able to respond any sooner but projects and deadlines. Just a bit of an update, I had the interview and was given the feeling that they liked me but I will not have a decisiojn any times soon as they have stopped theinterviewing process due to the Holidays. Meanwhile, it has given me a chance to finish the project and I have it finished but the only problem is that they want me to audit/reconcile they year of 2005 and 2006, which represents the the full term of their relationship. Well, we will se because I do want to take the other job. Both positions are stable as both employers are big fashion moguls in the fashion industry but the current employer works me as a slave thus tthe terms swaet shops in the garment industry. Nothing has changed since the big expose in the 1980s. I think i will go with option 3 and work as a consultant, if I am given the chance from both places. I am unhappy at my current job because it has demanded so much from me that some aspects of my laife have suffered due to their egregious demands.
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