corporate etiquette
I am very new to corporate America. I’ve always been in a union of some kind up to this point, but if recently decided to look for something different. I received an offer letter from company A - is it had been quite a long time since I had interviewed with company B and hadn’t gotten any type of response, I accepted the offer. A week later, long after I would’ve expected to hear from them, company B contacted me and offered me a job at a significantly higher rate of pay.
Would it be acceptable for me to contact company A, let them know that I’d rather work for them, but I have been offered a position with another company, at a higher rate of compensation, and would it be possible for them to meet me 1/2 the difference?
I don’t want to jeopardize the job offer from company A because I would much rather work there, but it’s difficult to ignore how much more money I could be making with company B. To what degree of poor form, would it be if I tried to negotiate up after accepting the offer letter? I don’t wanna go in with something negative hanging over my head.