'I really need you to train your replacement right': Boss Pressures Employee to Stay After His Two Week Notice Ends Because New Hire Refuses To Be Trained

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    Font - r/antiwork u/Gently Used Otter • 1d 1 1 "I really need you to train your replacement right."
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    Font - So a few years ago I got a job working security for a shitty little security company. I gave it a month I didn't like it so my dumb ass gave them the two weeks notice. So they had two weeks to send me a trainee to train.
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    Font - On my last day, on the day that I literally cared the least they sent me a guy to train. Alright I'll do my best. So the kid gets there and immediately just sets up his laptop start gaming. And I told him that we were going to train today, his response was "well they told me that I could be on my computer." Which they had told me that too, they didn't really give two shits. And I responded with "well I kind of need to train you to do the job first."
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    Font - So in a huff he closed his computer and I attempted to show him what to do. And the entire time he's on his phone. Now this is my last day I don't really give a shit if he learns it or not.
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    Font - So at the end of the night I give him control of everything and as I predicted he couldn't do any of it because he wasn't paying attention. So the shift ends. And the manager calls me and asks me how he did.
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    Handwriting - I don't sugarcoat anything, I let him know that the kid didn't pay attention so he didn't learn a goddamn thing. So here's how the next conversation went.
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    Handwriting - Manager: "so can you train him again tonight?" Me: "no I start at my new job tonight." Manager: "So can't come in tonight?" Me: "no as I said in my email last night was my last night" Manager: "but he needs to be trained" Me: "then I would suggest you find somebody to train him"
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    Font - At that point I hung up, I was done with the conversation. On my way home he called me another dozen times, I didn't pick up. If you want your people trained well, Don't have their trainer be the person who's quitting. They have no investment in how this person does.
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    Font - LeMaik. 1d If you want your people trained well, Don't have their trainer be the person who's quitting. They have no investment in how this person does. also maybe dont send them in on the other persons last day but give them a few days to settle first. whatever, its the managers fault and problem Reply 7.4k
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    Rectangle - soaringseafoam . 1d This is a classic "that sounds like a you problem." Tbh you did enough trying to train the guy, a lot of people wouldn't have even done that. Reply 648 ...
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    Font - AWholeNewFattitude. 1d I put in my two weeks notice at my last job, I've been there for 15 years and I think they didn't believe that I was actually going to leave. Well for two weeks I didn't hear anything really from anybody my manager nobody nothing so I did what I had to do and wait it out just counting down the days. Well, my last day comes and about halfway through the day I start getting panicked emails, oh can you just finish up this before you go, can you just make sure this is t
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    Font - GentlyUsed Otter OP. 1d Oh absolutely they don't think the long-term people are going to leave. ... 540
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    Font - BoomerGVL. 1d I've had a discussion with my boss that I'm not in it for the long haul (I've been here 6 years) and she "joked" that I need to give her 3 months notice. More recently she said a year. We are a 2.5 person department. A couple years ago she said she was going to shift the "half" completely to their other department and hire someone to make it 3, fully cross train and so forth. Still hasn't happened. I have no doubt that when I do finally go, she won't hire someone until my la
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    Rectangle - An_Actual_Thing. 1d I love and hate that moment where managers somehow don't understand that quitting means you're going to stop working for them. Reply ... 530
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    Font - GentlyUsed Otter OP. 1d Yeah he's a big fan of saying the term "company loyalty". I have expected him to say that I wasn't being loyal to the company. 204
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    Font - CrazyCatLady Rookie • 1d A few years ago, I took compassionate leave for eight weeks to do end of life care for my mom at home. While I was on leave, I saw my job posted online and I wondered wtf was up - I had a fairly long tenure with the company and had never had a poor performance review. The wtf feeling was reinforced when my (micro) manager was overly interested in some aspects of my work (I was the super administrator for a company wide software program that nobody else would cross
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    Font - Undersmusic. 1d In my first ever corporate company job. I went for an advanced role. As I'd been filling in for the role while someone else was on maternity. I didn't get the role, but was still expected to cover until they return from maternity leave. Sure why not I was anyway. Later that week I get called upon to shadow and train the new person who did get the role... So I'm like. Ok you didn't feel I was the right fit for the role full time. Despite doing it for 6 months. But you expec
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    Font - wiserone291d It makes perfect sense to a manager who doesn't see their employees as people to send in the trainee on the last day of the person they are replacing. You are nothing but a tool that's being retired and replaced. Only on your last day did they bother to get someone in. A humanistic way is to hire someone sooner so that the three of you are working together and manager does the training. Why? Without the manager there, the person resigning won't give a fuck, the new hire won't

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