'They fired me and want free labor': Marketing employee is laid off due to budget cuts, their boss expects them to train their replacement for 2 months unpaid

Never agree to unpaid labor unless you want to spend the rest of your life being a doormat for C-suite executives.

Times are tough, which means that struggling companies are due for budget cuts. This ultimately affects the roles of many employees at their respective companies, and in turn, results in unexpected layoffs. If your hopes and dreams have ever been put through the corporate meat grinder, you know just how jarring it is to get that random, menacing Google Calendar invite with your boss and HR. You hope that, at the very least, you come out of the meeting with something that starts with "s" and ends in "everance".

What do you do if your boss expects you to train your replacement? For one, you'd probably be asking why there's a replacement for you in your role that was eliminated. Second, calmly (or erratically) refuse, especially if this supposed "training" will leave you overworked and unpaid.

Upper management employees regularly display their unprecedented audacity, but this story takes the cake. The marketing employee who shares the story explains that in the same breath as the news of her layoff, her boss asked her to transition her duties to her replacement, all for the astounding pay of zero dollars. Scroll to read.

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