My job (I’m an optometrist scribe) offered me a raise and a promotion because I told them I received a better job offer with a higher pay and I will be moving on. They never sent me an offer letter and now are acting like it never happened. They keep firing people for no reason and I’m scared if I say anything about it I will be fired next. How do I navigate this? Can they even do that?
Contact the company that gave you the better offer and see if they will still take you.
This calls for getting a new offer, not resign, and simply disappear one day.
Always get it in writing.
I’m not a lawyer, but they probably just bought themselves some time to find your replacement. I’d seek employment elsewhere.
Rule #1: The money doesn’t exist until it is in your pocket. Start looking for new opportunities again, and never trust your current employer again.
Be less trusting in the future. If it’s not in writing it didn’t happen.
You will be fired soon anyway; all you did was give them time to replace you.
If it ain’t writ, it ain’t shit.
Never take a counter offer. Now you know.
Find a new job. Leave when you can. Notice? Only if you like your coworkers. Never trust any manager or owner there again.
Teo said:
Find a new job. Leave when you can. Notice? Only if you like your coworkers. Never trust any manager or owner there again.
The only thing OP should do for the coworkers is tell them exactly what happened on the way out the door so they don’t fall for the same 
.
Always get it in writing.
Apply for other jobs, and if you get an offer this time take it and move on.
Always let them know you’re about to be poached by the opposition. I did and always ended up with a better deal. And always get offers in writing first.
Sounds like Promissory Estoppel to me. You don’t have to have it in writing. I’d just contact that other job and see if the position is still available. It’s not worth the legal hassle for so little money.
@Eli
I had a job that did crap like this to me for two years. I was promoted four times without pay or title change. They even said they changed my title 5 times and never officially did. They were also shocked that I had the nerve to verify that information.
Get it in writing?
Dirty. Fall out.
I had a friend who found another job paying 50% more than he was making. He gave his two weeks and the employer said they would give him a 60% bump. They did and he turned down the other job. Then, a month later, his job hired someone else and let him go because he made too much. They had already hired at the other job so he just had a couple of weeks unemployed. Luckily, his job was in demand and he found something making more quickly, but pretty fucked up. It’s shit like this I think of when people are defending small businesses.