I accepted a new position with a new company that starts in a few weeks. Friday, March 4th, I notified my supervisor that I would be turning in my 2 weeks notice the following Monday. I've heard of them having employees pack up and leave immediately, but I wanted to make sure I had wrapped up as much as I could before I left so I let her know early.
I submitted my resignation the following Monday and got an email from my manager asking if he could call in the afternoon. He ends up calling me at 6:30 because he was on the road all day, but he's interested in seeing what it would take to keep me around. (He spent the first 5-10 minutes telling me how awful it will be to work at the other company). I tell him I'll think it over and call him back. I call him Tuesday morning and let him know that I need a raise of about $7500 to consider staying. He essentially scoffs at the idea, but tells me that he's going to submit it for approval. He did tell me that his boss's boss (I don't even know who that is at this point) is off for a few days, but he'll let me know.
I hear nothing the rest of the week, nor the weekend. I get an invitation this morning to go to a training and lunch next week, which I decline. The manager asks me to call him, so I do. He tells me that he thinks he will get the raise approved, but he was waiting for the final approval before letting me know. I let him know that I'll think it over and get back to him.
At this point, sticking around just doesn't seem to be in the cards. I'm thrilled that they actually met my demands for the counter offer (or at least are claiming they will, I'm not 100% sure they weren't going to end up offering me $3-4,000 less than I asked), but barely meeting my demands plus not following up for over a week doesn't really scream “we don't want to lose you”. The biggest thing that upset me is that they seemed very willing to raise my salary despite previously telling me that our raises were the best they could give. The raise would certainly put me in a better financial place than the new job, but I have no faith that I wouldn't get screwed over during the next round of raises or some other time down the road.
For context, I have heard from other employees that they made no effort to retain them, so I do believe they are trying their best to keep me. My current salary is higher than it was in January, but they also raised the minimum, midpoint, and maximum of all the salaries, and I'm currently farther from the midpoint than I was before my raise. My counter offer was to have them raise me to the midpoint, which is where I should be in the first place.
TL;DR: I'm leaving my job despite them (presumably) meeting my counteroffer demands. I'm feeling torn because they are seemingly trying to get me to stay, but it feels as though they didn't value me appropriately until it was time to leave, which means that they will probably continue to undervalue me in the future