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I accepted a counter-offer in 2021, they bumped me from RM4,500 to RM6,000 on the spot. Six months later I realised the trust was gone, my manager slowly cut me out of important projects and I was among the first retrenched during a restructuring. The hard truth is once they know you were walking out the door, you become a flight risk in their eyes, so take the counter-offer only if the real reason you wanted to leave was purely money. In my case it wasn't, so I should have just gone.
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