#OfficeManager #JobTransition #ProfessionalDilemma
Hey everyone! 🌟 Have you ever been in a situation where your boss decides to replace you with someone from overseas at a significantly lower salary? 🤯 How did you handle it? I’m currently facing this myself and feeling a bit lost. Here’s the lowdown:
– Started as an office manager, revamped processes, and reduced accounts receivables
– Boss eliminating my role and hiring someone for 75% less salary from the Philippines
– Expected to train replacement and provide detailed guide 📚
– $2,000 bonus offered for training, but not initially clarified
What are your thoughts on this? How would you handle training your replacement in this scenario? Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated! 🙏 Let’s discuss and help each other navigate through these challenging situations.
Quit. Don’t train her. The end. F your boss. You’re not being unprofessional for not training your imported replacement.
You 1,000% do not train this individual. Your boss receives what they pay for and they are choosing to not pay for your services any longer. $2,000 as an exchange for replacing you is such an insult.
Just walk out now. The money is him buying your self worth.
Let him write his own bible
Sorry, tough situation.
What’s your current salary? Is 2K a significant amount for you? 2K is a lot more appealing if you are making 30K a year vs 60K.
I wouldn’t do the training. Based on what you said, you were valuable to the company and saved them money, and this is how they repay you. And they were clear this is related to salary.
Obviously start updating your resume and applying for other jobs. I would also look into your areas unemployment process.
Get as much of this request to train in writing as you can. “Can you send an email with exactly I would need to do in order to obtain the bonus and how you would want me to change my job duties until I am done?”. Get it in writing, print it out/forward to your personal email.
Then I would just be blunt with the employer. “I don’t feel comfortable with this request. I am willing to continue my job with my current duties, but I am not willing to train my replacement.”
If they fire you on the spot, collect unemployment. It’s not like you have a long future there anyway.
I’d also possibly create a detailed guide on your own time for my own reference.
Your boss should have asked you to make this manual before saying he’s replacing you. Now that you know, you don’t do shit and mail it in. To hell with the $2k
$2000 ?! Ah hell no
Train her. But do it completely wrong. Like all of the worst ideas in history. No one said you had to do it right. He gets what he paid for.
What if you tell the new girl how much less she is earning and that she could get much more?
Scorched earth tactic
Train her poorly
Just say no.
You will lose the job whichever way – 2k is better than 0 and gives you more time for job search. Just make sure it’s not something like “$2k based on performance of new employee”. Best would be paid in advance with refund if you leave early.
Train her in all the basics but you can omit all the extras like invoice chasing. There’s no chance she will do your work well – she doesn’t have enough cultural knowledge to cover you well, especially invoice chasing. That’s the reason outsourcing doesn’t work for this type of roles and never did.
At the same time – it’s not her fault to be in this situation. If she’s nice – help her, if she’s cocky or just plain not nice – skimp on some critical details 🙂
y’all can clean out my desk see ya
If the ‘offer’ of $2K is not in writing then it’s not a real offer. Don’t let the employer dangle that carrot in front of you without assurances in writing. I’ve seen this happen too many times. Even with a written offer it could still be taken away. The worst was well after a bankruptcy at a company I was at, I learned via their public bankruptcy docs that they made all sorts of monetary promises to key employees. Then those became null and void after the bankruptcy and they got nothing. These were also written offers(VPs, Directors, specialized employees). Some of the offers were in $100K+. Point is companies will find any way to save a buck while still having someone do their work for them. I’m willing to bet your boss or company will stiff you AFTER you train that person. They know you need the money and will exploit you.
Find a new job ASAP and leave him with nothing.
Negotiate. Your experience is worth much more than 2k$. Make a list of the improvements you made. Ask for 15k or you leave on the spot, settle for 10k (in writing ) and do it well. Document in writing their attendance, what you covered, and what you think the trainee understands and what they don’t.
And also suggest a support contact as a consultant for the next months. Make it clear that you will provide zero support if not paid to your satisfaction. Hand out your proposal on your last day or if they ask you to be available after you leave.
You could go through the training. However, in a similar been there and done that situation, I moved from one job. Was training my replacement. There was just so much to the job that the new person couldn’t handle it and was gone in less than a month. Ultimately, they had to hire 2 people to replace me.
A few more options: counter offer $20,000 to train her, call in sick, or just say no (what is he going to do, fire you?).
Just leave
Ask for more money! He’s saving 36k each year, so offer to train your replacement for 18k, not a penny less.
Take the 2k, pretend you’re training her, don’t complain at all. This is key. Act like you’re doing everything they want, but make sure to do a terrible job training her. Leave out small but crucial details, give her phone numbers off by one digit, incorrect email address, etc.
Make sure the replacement is set up to fail but pretend you gave her everything. When boss calls you to fix the mess in a month, tell him you’ll be a 1099 independent contractor for $250/hr, with 20 hr minimum, paid up front.
In the meantime get a new job.
Would be an awful shame if you had persistent tech issues that made training her almost impossible.
Just really strong it out and do the absolute bare minimum until the 21.
Leave immediately
make a guide for your replacement.
sell that to your boss for 10k
quit and never look back
Pick one mildly unimportant task that you do, and spend the next week training this person in meticulous detail how to do it perfectly. Then on your last day, give a brief 1 sentence overview of the rest of your job duties, and go home.
Quit now, fuck him.
Or, you could train her, incorrectly. Get your money and still screw him