Have you handed your notice in and stayed because employer made changes for you?

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I have a 3 month notice period, DS starts school in September and I feel my job is just too much for me. I have a younger nursery age child as well.
I am not in a senior role but the workload is too much for one person. They are part-time employing a temp to help me but the contract is 3 months and I have a feeling they'll leave very quickly and start a new job because they will find it too much.

I am considering handing my notice in which I can see only two option, either I do leave and I have 3 months to work out what I want to do. Or they make changes for me and I'm happier to stay.

Has anyone else been in this position?

A slightly similar/ different situation for me in that I wasn’t happy due to being overworked and having been promised a promotion and then they hired someone in to that role so my promotion went out of the window.

I was offered a more senior role elsewhere for similar pay. I went to the MD and effectively resigned. He immediately offered me a big pay rise and the promotion was back on the table with lots of begging from him for me to stay. 3 years on the money was nice but the promotion was nowhere to be seen. I’d resigned myself to staying mostly because I was good at the job and the money was good but it started to sour and ended really badly. Because I was good they piled the work on to just me and my lazy colleagues sat around whilst I worked all hours.

Their poor attitudes towards staff and staff welfare really shone through and I had many moments wishing I’d taken the other job. I’ve left now and I’m moving on to, hopefully, much better opportunities.

I think with hindsight that their lack of care towards you now shows their true colours. They may make a temporary fix but if they were going to change they should be doing it without you having to threaten to leave.

Could you find something before you leave? I know the job market’s not great at the moment (my industry hardly has anything advertised now) but I reached out to recruiters and managers and had 3 offers in just under two months and felt much happier leaving with a role to look forward to.

Reddit Antiwork is absolutely adamant that you never take the counteroffer. Onward and upward always involves somewhere else.