Have you ever experienced getting laid off and having to train offshore consultants to do your job like me?
#layoff #offshoreconsultants #corporateoverlords #severancepackage #transitioningwork #savingmoney
## Layoff and Offshore Consultant Training
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I hope you trained them to do it completely wrong lmao
Hope you find a new job really quickly!
Figure out how they define “success of transitioning”. It’s perfectly reasonable to ask – you can say things like “I want to ensure the best result so how will you test this”. Also of course ask exactly what the severance package is. If they can’t answer either of these then they are bullshitting you. If they can, then just ensure they can pass those criteria and absolutely nothing more. Bonus points for leaving out crucial information that won’t get noticed until later.
I say this because it’s not just a severance package, it’s also unemployment. If you quit you won’t get that. Maybe in your situation it’s better to find a new job soon… but often it’s good to take advantage of UI.
Why don’t you walk away now. F%#k em. Just hanging around for a few dollars more?
I say you surreptitiously train them to f#ck up, use the time to look for another job, then go ‘Oh well…’ and leave them in the lurch. Why assist them in screwing yourself?
I’d read your employment contract or handbook and see what it says about severance
Being told to train my replacement because they are cheaper? Yea that gets a fuck you and an upper decker in the executive washroom.
When they can get away with it the oligarchs will have us rendered down for tallow and they’ll sell us. They’re utter heartless scum.
Terk er jerbs!
Same exact thing happened to me. The offshore contractors I had to train were so incompetent that they couldn’t grasp even the most basic details of my admittedly basic but important job. Let the boss know and he wanted me to reach out to anyone I could within the company to pass off the job. Told him to kick rocks and find someone himself.
Nobody took it over and they still try to call me for help. I was laid off over a year ago. Glad they were able to save money hiring 4 people in India to replace me.
Wow that is awful and my heart goes out to you. If you can afford to, it would be awesome if you pulled an “Office Space” and became DGAF for your finals days. Show up hours late in Hawaiian shirt, train no one, act like you’ve never been happier. It’s not like they deserve to have their offshore employees trained by you. Good luck
>I recently got a layoff notice, and today I find myself having to train a whole team of offshore consultants on how to do my job.
Unless this is a contractual obligation, do not do so.
>today it was alluded to that my “generous” severance package is contingent on the success of transitioning my work to this team of offshore consultants. So they not only want me to stick around until my time is up but I have to earn my severance package by making sure this new team is successful. It’s just another way for them to save money by finding a loophole to not pay me for my efforts.
Correct. Regardless of how well you do training them, your employer will say that it wasn’t satisfactory and deny your severance. Better to bite the bullet and write off your severance as a lost cause.
This is not advice by any means, but the fact you are trining a team of people to do one mans job seem like it could be something to be used for leverage or negotiation, right? If you leave and don’t train them, how fucked are they?
Sounds like a great time to go off on fmla stress leave and sue if they don’t give you the severance
Their kids? At that point the robots will do everything