Yes. Read the offer. And read the better offer you get out of the blue immediately after. And do the damn math. And understand you don't owe any CEO a new yacht. I'm glad we agree.

If your CEO thought taking a better offer when it became available was "deceit," you would both be unemployed. Your attitude is contrary to the capitalist fundamentals under which our companies operate. My former employers in China offered similar platitudes when I left for greener pastures back home, and I find them distasteful.

(For the record, they laid off all of their expatriate workers less than three years later.)