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Waimea-Falls@georgetakei I recall a certain company in UK who got the tech department to give a fortnight's introductory training to the sales staff and then ..... They fired the tech department staff - well, the sales people were already earning more so they had to save money somewhere! ......
Steve's Place@georgetakei Me! A company decided to replace me (a contractor) with a cheap, younger dude. He looked at my code, embedding a different operating system into Linux so that the company's code would run without making any changes to it. He says to me, "I don't understand. How do I do this?" What???
Contractors don't train replacement employees, as a general rule. I laughed and told him that was his job. The company hired me back a few weeks later.
Taran Rampersad@steter @georgetakei well played!🙃
MorganVHad a similar situation as a subcontractor. Client company decided to replace our sub-company with another, to save less than 20c/hour. Gave us a week to train the replacements.
Went with strict compliance. Continued to do our job at the same level of reasonable competency, but didn't explain anything.
They could watch, but we didn't explain what we were doing, or why. Situations that didn't come up in that week (some tasks happened once or twice a year), unshown. F'em.
Ms. Que Banh@georgetakei Yes. 12 years ago. I quit instead of agreeing. Found a better job. They called me 3 months later to offer me the job they gave the younger, inexperienced person. I turned them down. Not sorry!
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epicdemiologist@georgetakei I was fired without notice for being pregnant, and was ordered to train my replacement on my last day. I was young and stupid, so I not only did that, but also didn't crash the accounting system while I was in there. I still wouldn't crash the accounting system, but if it happened to me today I'd tell them to pound sand.
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In Search of a Better WorldYah, I'm GenX through and through. Both younger and older people have been getting "my" promotions my entire career. Boomers take from the top, Mills and Zers from the bottom. If anything, I'm more surprised it has taken this lady so long for it to happen to.
In the words of my people: Meh.
HowToPhil (Phillip R)@georgetakei Eyup and I should have said no. The next time, I did say no.