Training your replacement is an odd feeling

"CB" (jrcb)
02/20/2018 at 20:51 • Filed to: Worklopnik

Odds are good that he’ll be better than me in every way, as he’s older and has more experience in the field, but still, it feels odd training someone so that they can take over your job. Oh well, three weeks until I’m finished. Post Porsches or whatever.

DISCUSSION (25)

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > CB
02/20/2018 at 21:06

Kinja'd!!!

when me boss told me i had to train up me replacement i just walked out 3 weeks early (course in my case i actually had to train up a dude from scratch for a position they had told me for me 3 years would be mine once the agency contract ran out)

CB > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
02/20/2018 at 21:08

Oh, I’m good with it. My boss has known that I’ll be leaving for a month now (and to be honest, since I got there), I just have to give them enough warning so they can set up clearances and make sure my replacement is competent.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > CB
02/20/2018 at 21:12

thats okidori then :)

still.. it was nice to have a little vent... sorry bout the hurting porsche

here have a happy one

Kinja'd!!!

CB > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
02/20/2018 at 21:14

Nah, no worries, I’m not a huge Porsche fan. And that doesn’t look happy, that looks angry.

dogisbadob > CB
02/20/2018 at 21:19

At least it’s not a temp or H1b making less than half of what you make/made

Milky > CB
02/20/2018 at 21:25

I don’t know why I did this, but it happened.

Kinja'd!!!

CB > dogisbadob
02/20/2018 at 21:26

Nah, but with how quickly we cycle through employees, we all might as well be considered temps.

CB > Milky
02/20/2018 at 21:27

The last one looks the best.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > CB
02/20/2018 at 21:30

I’ve spent the last two months training the new employee who got the job I was hoping to be promoted to. It’s very odd because on a daily basis she asks me for advice, or reminders on how to do things, and yet she’s meant to be my superior.

Also I found out recently that a big part of why I wasn’t promoted is that one of the higher ups thinks I’m too immature because he saw me doing donuts in a dirt parking lot like a year ago.

CB > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
02/20/2018 at 21:32

Well that’s petty.

fhrblig > CB
02/20/2018 at 21:33

I trained my replacement and they laid him off 3 weeks after I left. I left just in time.

CB > fhrblig
02/20/2018 at 21:34

Yikes. Sounds like you did.

Maxima Speed > Milky
02/20/2018 at 21:38

Bless you, my son. You’re doing the righteous work.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > CB
02/20/2018 at 22:12

I’ve trained several replacements as a result of moving departments... I fucking hated it. I’m impressed by the number of people who don’t know how to do a job yet but seem to have a lot to say about it.