Negotiating within your existing job

- Ultimately, companies typically, they don't want you to leave, right? It's expensive to recruit. Recruiters are expensive. It takes time, energy, and effort. And frankly, your boss would be rather working towards their goals than having to recruit for you. They have to throw a farewell party for you. They have to interview people. They have to hire someone who doesn't work out. They have to fire them. So it takes time, right? Plus all the institutional knowledge that walks out the door when you lose someone. So when you're thinking about negotiating to stay at an existing job if you've had an offer externally, typically they will want you to stay, right? So you do have a level of power there when you realize that losing you is going to cost the company money, right? And they can't always come to the table with the monetary figure that maybe a competitor can. But what can they offer you? And I guess this is…