If you were selected for a stay interview, or retention interview, what would you say? What makes you stay? What makes you want to leave? What's not working? What could be better?
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Show up every day, work hard, and don’t complain, and in fifty years you’ll get a nice gold watch. Which will be slipped on your cold, dead wrist.
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Neither. We are useful tools until we’re not. Gac knows it. We know it. Interviews are as useful as jeeerking off in the shower. Feels good for a minute, but wasted time.
What's not working? Just look to the leaders, specifically HR.
The HR exit interview is to see if you’re going to lawyer up. That’s all they care about. The “stay” interview is your director or senior management reaching out to HR to see if they can get you to stay by offering you things they should have before you submitted your resignation. It’s amazing what they can offer when you’re walking out the door compared to the lip service they give you when they think you don’t have options. I declined to speak but had directors call and make promises anyway. Unless you plan on getting a salary out of it you’re comfortable retiring with, don’t bother with the meeting. Just leave.
HR doesn’t do anything with your “exit interview” anyway.
Never stay. Never. Decline interview and move on.