It Just Keeps Getting Harder

When I tendered my resignation, I told my superiors why I was leaving and they accepted it. A week or so before my last day, my manager laid an offer on the table in the vaguest way possible. My decision stood and there was nothing they could have done to make me stay. I remember what he said vividly, "sometimes, principles can be bought". I was not pleased with that statement but declined politely. It only hit me a few seconds after leaving his desk what was on offer. I recalled he mumbled the word "manager" and so images of much bigger pay cheques, luxuries and fame that follow crossed the very principled mind of mine. I could have been the fastest promoted manager ever in the history of that company - I thought.