O/T Train Your Higher Paid Replacements
So I have decided to retire from my job January 31st after being told that I cannot have a change of title or a pay raise because I am doing a higher-level job as well as my own job.
No sooner than I told them I was leaving, they stated that my job will go back to the way it was at a higher level under a different department just like before I took it on. Bonus: the grueling responsibilities of my own job that I have been doing as well as the higher-level job will be taken away!
I immediately replied that I will be glad to stay on under those circumstances if I can be under the different department at a higher level and was immediately turned down.
They then had the gall to ask me to train them personally by setting up a webinar for them. I stated they can gladly have my job description which is a 5-page and counting, single spaced, narrow margin outline which refers to at least fifty other separate documents. I also offered my MP4s I made of the guy who had the job previously to myself.
I then told my boss that they should get right in there and start doing it now using my instructions while I am still here. I will be damned if I pick up the phone or answer any of their texts after I am gone.
The people that are taking over my job, although higher-paid and titled, have zero work ethic and do not have the skill sets to do the job. They often ask me and my cubicle mate how to fix their and their "clients" computers for them. My own boss had a fight with one of them over using our ticketing system which they refuse to do.
Example: I just gave detailed instructions to one of them on how to INSTALL the software they will be using to do a tiny segment of my job and she responded "what is UAC?" Seriously?
I realize nobody is irreplaceable, but in this circumstance it will be like climbing Mount Everest without oxygen and Sherpas.
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Not your problem. But oh, to
Not your problem. But oh, to be a fly on the wall!
consultant pay
I'd answer the phone as a consultant. Triple your current hourly wage -- All calls billed in hourly increments.
Consultant
you can charge what you want when they are desperate enough!
Just got a panicked email
From the "higher level's" boss. They clearly are way over their head. LOL
You do what I did when I left my last position
They had the nerve to call me to "help" them out of a situation they created and didn't want to pay attention to before I left. My answer..."sure I will help my hourly rate is $120 per hour and I will not work after 5 p.m."
Funny...they wanted me to "help" them for free...mmm..ya NO
I had a previous company
I had a previous company pester me after I left for a better job. And I had documented everything. The first 3 calls, I referred them to Page X. That was within a single hour of their first day without me. I was out of phone range for several hours and checked voicemail to find damn near a dozen vms. Didn't bother to call any of the "peons", but skipped straight to the boss. She begged me to help as they were so swamped. (Call the waaaaaaahm-bulance!) I agreed: for a fee of $200 an hour, only in hourly increments. She freaked. Told her that every-bloody-thing was in the documentation I'd left (with a TOC and glossary!), and if it wasn't in there, they needed a programming fix. Period. The company went toes-up in less than a year. Guess she should've given me that raise...
When i was out on disability
My boss was blowing up my phone. When i got back he said "i learned more about the systems you work with than i ever want to... don't ever leave again."
He of course was instrumental in keeping me at a lower level and doing the job of two people.
I once worked for a company
I once worked for a company and found where there was embezzlement when doing a year end audit. I tracked it all down, gathered all the evidence and went to the owner of the company. I went to court to press charges against that person. Once all the dust settled our entire accounting department was fired.
The owner said he couldn't trust us. That was the thanks I got. They gave us 30 days to find a new job and train our replacements. If we didn't train we wouldn't get the 30 days or the severance package. It was humiliating. I was a single mom with 2 kids at home, I had to keep my employment and needed the severance and insurance coverage.
Good thing is the company has gone to complete crap and over 50 people have left since I was there! I hope the owners lose everything!
As for you, do the bare minimum and met questions with the vaguest answers you can come up with. And DON"T answer that phone once retire!
Sounds like my situation. I
Sounds like my situation. I'm the supervisor of the Network Operators for our data center, which is what I wanted and was promoted to that spot 5ish years ago.
Now, I'm in charge of building facilities, received no raise or promotion for a 'manager' position. March 2020, all the senior staff took their happy asses home to work and left me in charge of not just my 24/7/365 staff, also keeping someone here to monitor environmentals in the data center, and the sole person on site to handle any building, network, systems issues that arose.
I tried to get one of my staff a promotion to assist me so I wasn't on call 24/7/365, and was told I didn't need any help. I can take a penalty free early retirement April 25th but I need a job making a certain figure to get me to 62 and I haven't kept on my certs and skills so that will take some time to do.
One good perk I receive is that I can cash in my sick time and get my health insurance at the same price that I pay as a full time state employee. I have 1600+ sick hours so I'm good on that until 65.
Now I'm jealous and motivated to get it all sorted by next fall.
Enjoy your retirement!!
January 21st
That's my last day!
I did give plenty of notice to let my boss hire my backfill, and I'll train them for two weeks. But I'm fine in the 21st. I do think they will struggle because I cover alot of projects but not my problem after the 21st!
Including holidays and weekends...just 14 more workdays. Can't wait.
I've been trying to get
I've been trying to get people to pay attention to pay rates of my senior staff. If any of them should leave, I couldn't replace them at current salary. Not even close. Two of them have sufficient years to retire.
HR doesn't understand what my area does. The VP finance rejected my last plea because my seniors would be making more than her seniors. The marketplace doesn't really care about that.
My boss gets it but he's retiring. I have one more major push in me before he goes. I don't know what I'll do if it's not approved. I have sufficient years and income to retire as well so that might be a threat. That I'd have to be prepared to follow through with.
I get that salaries and bennies are a huge expense. But nothing like the expense of failure to perform. In my profession audit findings and penalties for serious infractions run into the millions.
So shortsighted
This is why no one stays at
This is why no one stays at one company very long anymore. To increase your income in a meaningful way you need to leave and go to another company.
The people who stay do so because they are comfortable but when you start piling on a lot of work, don't provide much recognition, and the pay is low compared to what they would make elsewhere - well people will vote with their feet.
I would be concerned about the two close to retirement as well since post-COVID many people are taking that option (including me!).