How to handle an employee who keeps threatening to quit
Employees often use repeated quitting threats as leverage to secure unearned pay raises because past compliance taught them it works. This behavior forces managers into endless pay negotiations and prevents them from establishing stable, performance-based compensation.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Giving into demands and offering additional raises to keep the employee from leaving
- 2Calling their bluff, accepting their resignation, and letting them leave
- 3Refusing to negotiate further and offering a good reference to move on
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
Where this came up
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