fjori

The Director and Vice President of my department are trying like hell to get me to stay. They're supposed to be meeting with the President and COO Monday morning about giving me 50% more to stick around.

I've heard that you shouldn't take a counter-offer to stick around but that's a hell of a lot of money. I know a lot of the stupid bullshit that I have to deal with where I'm at now won't change, but if they're paying me as much as they're working on, I can't imagine them having me work on all the insignificant shit they could get a trained monkey to do.

My boss is the Director and we've gotten to be pretty good friends outside of work so I don't think he'd bullshit me too much. I don't trust anybody completely though and my paranoia may be getting the best of me. He told me he's been trying to prep me to be his replacement so he can move up to VP and the current VP can move up to CIO. Of course, I don't know if he's blowing smoke up my ass or not, but I'm 26 and that would be pretty fucking sweet to be a Director at my age. I'm not certain, but I think that would be another 50% over what he's trying to get approved for me now and a hell of a bonus.

My friend at the other company is telling me to tell them to fuck off and come work with him, naturally, but I still don't know what to do. I've got to make my decision on Monday though...