Right to refuse a promotion

[stevieb]

JamieBeeston said:

If, as you said above you've already accepted a counter offer some years back, it may well be there is simply bad blood / an irrational dislike for you from a director.. as such nothing much you can do will dissuade them from this feeling..

As others have said, explore the two rival offers.. what have you got to lose? Seriously?

Probably got nothing to lose. But the project i am working on is one that the majority of people int he industry want on there CV..

Need the guts to bite the bullet and just go now!
When i resigned before it was pretty easy as they could not offer me the opportunities i needed to advance my career.. But the people were really good and understanding.. I now have the chances to better myself but the people are an absolute arse to deal with

[stevieb]

Update.

After some careful thoughts i decided to get back onthe job market. Have been for one interview so far and secured the job. I have a offer via email which looks quite good. I am awaiting all of the paperwork through the post to confirm the smaller details.

I have 2 other interview in the next few weeks, so hopefully should have a couple of jobs decide from.

But just need to work my 3 months notice now!

How can i get myself off on gardening leave!

[Mr POD]

stevieb said:

Update.

After some careful thoughts i decided to get back onthe job market. Have been for one interview so far and secured the job. I have a offer via email which looks quite good. I am awaiting all of the paperwork through the post to confirm the smaller details.

I have 2 other interview in the next few weeks, so hopefully should have a couple of jobs decide from.

But just need to work my 3 months notice now!

How can i get myself off on gardening leave!

I listed the tasks I needed to do, and who I needed to involve or handover to in a Project Plan which showed a handover could be done in 3 weeks at the same time as Resigning and giving 5 weeks notice. My line manager refused, but HR overruled him as I was being very professional about it all.

What you really want is a redundancy offer.

[BigAlinEmbra]

Once you've got the offer from the new place nailed down, references accepted, my personal view would be to sit and do the square root of fk all for your notice period to teach them to be less y about job negotiations next time.
Doesn't do you any harm, and might make life easier for the person that has to fill your job.

[tigger1]

P4554T said:

How does it leave you better off? Tipping you over income tax bracket, more company car tax?

You do know that you only pay the higher rate for anything OVER the threshold, don't you?

[JamieBeeston]

tigger1 said:

P4554T said:

How does it leave you better off? Tipping you over income tax bracket, more company car tax?

You do know that you only pay the higher rate for anything OVER the threshold, don't you?

Aaah but you're forgetting that as a Higher rate tax payer you'll pay higher rate on all other associated sundry taxes as well which means if you're JUST over the limit, you could end up worse off.

J

[mcflurry]

JamieBeeston said:

tigger1 said:

P4554T said:

How does it leave you better off? Tipping you over income tax bracket, more company car tax?

You do know that you only pay the higher rate for anything OVER the threshold, don't you?

Aaah but you're forgetting that as a Higher rate tax payer you'll pay higher rate on all other associated sundry taxes as well which means if you're JUST over the limit, you could end up worse off.

J

True - higher tax on savings, investments etc, although it can contra off with pension contributions

If you are borderline it can be worth salary sacrificing the difference to your pension - an IFA will be able to fill in the blanks

[stevieb]

Am currently looking thorugh the pension thing.. But i have not got a clue how the pensions work etc.. Need to get advice ASAP. as the pension terms i am on at the moment are reasonable i put in 5% the company put in 10%. Still dont know how much money has been put in, or the projected fund. But now need to find out if i transfer my fund will i still be able to keep the company contributions if i leave?