Have you noticed that often when Cisco lays off somebody they have trouble finding one person who can do everything the position requires on their own and they end up hiring another one on top of the original hire? All to do that same job that was originally done by one, laid off employee? I can't decide if that's funny or sad.
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I was let go from my previous employer. My manager walked out the door 2 weeks later. No notice or anything. My second line and his direct report manager was on vacation. He put a post-it note on his desk, wrote "I quit", put his badge, keys, company card, and computer on his desk. 3 other employees did the same. The 4 walked out to another company together. The manager had no clue until he got back. I went on vacation the last 2 weeks of my 30-day notice. Went into turn my stuff in and he had no clue what to do. He asked me if I transferred my work and I told him I transferred it per the instructions given by my manager at the time (which was nothing). He walked me out the door and I said good luck and good riddance. I got calls that afternoon on how my job was done and everything that went with it. I explained I was no longer an employee and my time was now as a consultant. I said if you call me again it is either to hire me as a consultant or harassment. They offered to hire me back as a contractor and I refused. Its been over a year and my friends on the team still call me telling me they are 100% lost on my old job and can't explain why the organization continuously overspends by $10-$20M per quarter.
My advice...don't train your replacement without VERY detailed instructions on what is required of you. Saving all of my emails is what served me well on what my transfer assignments were and they couldn't force me back for my severance because of it.
I was LR'd and came back for a stint as a contractor. Once I came back, my original group started pinging me on issues with the workflow from my old group. They hired someone to essentially do the same job I was doing about six months later, and that person (understandably I guess) would reach out to me a few times a week. I am a team player but that made absolutely no sense to me. After my new boss asked me why I was "helping" someone from my old group, and wasn't too happy about it; I completely shut down the correspondence. I left shortly after.
Ditto. I had been the point of contact for servers that had been "refreshed" as part of my duties. After I was LR'd and gone for a year, I came back as a contractor for a different team. When those servers came due for replacement to replace the EOL OS, IT was contacting me asking if the hosts were still needed and telling me to open a case to replace them if they were still needed. Even after I responded with the owning manager's name so they could get a new POC, I was contacted by the IT admin during the outage window in the middle of the night for the host's replacement because something went wrong.
Luckily, most of my work was documented so my contractor replacement didn't have to contact me often with questions, but I think I ended up helping him once or twice. I had written some really good, helpful documentation that would help me in my new role and failed to keep a personal copy (industry best practice, not company proprietary stuff), so I asked him for copies as I no longer had access to where the documentation was stored. I guess we scratched each other's back, so I didn't mind helping. I was more bothered that they never updated system records showing me as the responsible support person for servers after I left.
The person gets information from you and gets award while you get squashed
most of the time the replacement is H1b allowing cisco to enslave them for many yrs at a lower salary which compensates for having two do the job of one
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I was LR'd and came back for a stint as a contractor. Once I came back, my original group started pinging me on issues with the workflow from my old group. They hired someone to essentially do the same job I was doing about six months later, and that person (understandably I guess) would reach out to me a few times a week. I am a team player but that made absolutely no sense to me. After my new boss asked me why I was "helping" someone from my old group, and wasn't too happy about it; I completely shut down the correspondence. I left shortly after.
most of the time the replacement is H1b allowing cisco to enslave them for many yrs at a lower salary which compensates for having two do the job of one