Stay or Take New Job?

• harmonicsoul
• 2 years ago

• Wedding: October 2017

As some of you might have seen from my last post, I received an offer to start a new job less than two months before my wedding. I feel like there should be a clear decision here, but I’m torn due to the circumstances. I’ve been in my first role out of college for almost two years now. I wasn’t looking due to the upcoming wedding, but the job fell into my lap.

Current Job Pros

• Fairly consistent 40 hours a week – overtime occasional
• Office is 10 minutes away from my house
• Pretty laid back – I’m able to go to the gym during lunch, come and go for appointments without a problem, etc.
• 100% covered health insurance premiums and deductibles
• Over 100 hours of PTO built up to cover wedding/honeymoon
• Rarely stressed / don’t take work home with me
• Pay is in line with (or slightly above) industry norms
• Pretty good manager and coworkers

Current Job Cons

• Although the boss isn’t here frequently, he’s volatile and puts everyone on edge
• Although it hasn’t happened recently, boss has said and done inappropriate things in the past
• Manager and I differ politically, and he insists on lecturing me about it every day
• No development – work is slow and hasn’t evolved since I started, no tuition reimbursement, etc.
• No consistent raises – I got one once, but that was to put me above the overtime law that we thought was going to pass at the time
• Small business with less than 30 people
  • No room for advancement – I’m basically in this role until my 60 year old manager retires (and then I’d have to report directly to the boss)
  • We don’t qualify for FMLA, so I have no clue how they’d accommodate me when I eventually become pregnant in a few years

New Job Pros

• Bigger company that belongs to one of the fastest growing Fortune 100 conglomerates
• Room for me to grow and/or functionally move around
• Pays 20% more than what I currently make (although it’s closer to 15% once you consider health and commute costs)
• Standard benefits you can expect with a large company – tuition reimbursement, covered STD and life insurance, stock options, etc.
• Several locations, including one in a city that I anticipate Fiance will need to relocate to in a couple of years
• Women-led management team that seems preferable to what I currently have (although I can’t know for sure)
• Slightly more PTO and sick days
• On-site gym and restaurant

New Job Cons

• I was told hours average between 40-50 a week, which is more than I’m used to
• 40 minute commute (although I had a worse commute for a full-time internship a few years ago)
• I will still profit, but I’m looking at around $1500 in new health expenses and $2600 in tolls
• They readily admit they still need to develop processes for storing their information and getting things accomplished
• I’d have to take my 2.5 week wedding/honeymoon unpaid and will basically be without PTO until January at the earliest
• PTO doesn’t roll over, so I will lose anything that I don’t use each year

401(k) match is essentially the same for both. It is unlikely I will get another offer that matches this base salary. What would you do in my shoes?

• harmonicsoul
• 2 years ago

• Wedding: October 2017

 tobeornottobe7 :  Yes, sorry, that was how much they’d cost a year.

Thank you everyone for your comments so far! Seeing such a clear winner in the polls and comments is helping ease my concerns.

ETA: I checked about the other locations, and I misread. Without giving it away too much, they have plenty of locations, but the only corporate location is where I currently am. So that takes away the potential to relocate with the company when we need to move for Fiance. But all the other pros remain.

• harmonicsoul
• 2 years ago

• Wedding: October 2017

southernbride16 :  Well, before background check I had to verbally accept the position. I assumed I’d still have to sign something to officially confirm, but I found out today that I passed background and they called to settle on a start date. So I suppose I accepted by default! Lol. It seems like the right decision regardless, but I am a little weirded out that they don’t have anything for me to sign.

I suppose I’ll put in my two weeks’ notice tomorrow, which is terrible timing (we’re in Florida). But I don’t have much of a choice. Hopefully my employer will be understanding.

• harmonicsoul
• 2 years ago

• Wedding: October 2017

 sablescorpion22 :  Thank you! I’m a Florida native so this isn’t my first rodeo, but it’s definitely a bigger storm than any of us are used to.

• harmonicsoul
• 2 years ago

• Wedding: October 2017

akshali2000 :  I would have loved to, but they need someone ASAP and wouldn’t be able to wait until mid-November.