So I'm in a bit of a pickle at the moment and want to get other people's thoughts. So I've been offered a new job with a reasonable salary increase.
I informed my current employer of my intentions to resign and they're trying to get me to stay. The main reason I began considering new opportunities is twofold really. 1 - because my company acquired another business who came with someone who did a similar job to me. So they decided to give half my job to that person. 2 - I've been in this role over 3 years now and I kind of feel I've reached that point I can get everything i want out of it.
So I explained this to my manager who told me they can look at padding out my role to cover more things and possibly take on some of her current responsibilities. It all sounds great in theory.
However about a year ago I was told there was a new position becoming available which would be a step up from my current role. I got all excited for it, only to be told they've had a rethink and they would no longer be recruiting for that role. Naturally I was disappointed and my manager says in hindsight it should never have been announced but the roles were signed off. It was just that a new person joined the business around that time and didn't feel that was the right thing to do.
We were still in lockdown at that stage so I decided to dust myself down and keep going. And a few months later came the announcement of acquisitions. And instead of working as separate businesses we would operate as 1. However this meant anyone from the acquired business was TUPE'd over to ours in the same roles. As mentioned above this then led to my role being chopped and half of what I did given to one of these. I wasn't really happy about that as I feel it would limit my growth potential. I spoke to my manager about a way it could work and save them money (they were planning on recruiting a new role - but I said I could take that on). After taking some time to think about it, they disagreed with my suggestion and left things the way they were. I should also point out with my role change, 2 of my direct reports are now reporting into this new person. So my team was cut too.
Now my manager is making all kinds of promises to flesh out my role to get me to stay. But I'm not sure if I should believe them as I've been burnt before. They never mentioned anything about salary increases or anything, but you would assume with extra responsibility comes a higher salary. Overall i do enjoy the job and there could be genuine career progression, but it's sad that I have to threaten to quit for my manager to realise that. I'm just scared if I stay, the promises won't be delivered. And also who's to say if they acquire another business, will my role change again?
The risk is that there is so much unknown about the new job. I may not like it. There opportunity for development may not be there, even though they said it is.
Would welcome any thoughts