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Companies often try to save money by making one person do the job of a whole department.

What would you do if your boss refused to hire anyone else for your team, but when you requested some PTO, she said that it was denied and if you went anyway, you would be fired?

That is what happened to the guy in this story, so when he returned from vacation and was told to train his two replacements, he did precisely what his boss demanded. He only trained them on the one area of the job she mentioned, leaving them unable to do most of the day-to-day work.

Personally, I don’t know if I would train my replacements at all. What a horrible thing for his manager to do. Read through the full story below and see what you think.

My boss hired two interns to replace me and asked me to train them after they were planning to fire me.

I used to work in Media Intelligence, which is a really niche market in the country that I am from.

Learning from the ground up can be great.

I started as an assistant and learnt everything from scratch as I switched from the hospitality industry (Pretty big step I know) I was eager to learn and was really interested in what they do as I was trying to get into media back then.

First of all, as I learned everything from scratch, I got really good at what I do after just six months working there. I was in a three person team and I had one of the best bosses and a rally good colleague which were veterans in the Industry.

There is nothing wrong with sticking with a company.

Both of them helped me a lot to get me where I was then. They left the company after just a year there as upper management was just plain hot garbage. The company had four changes in direction within a year and it was stressing my team out.

They did ask me to leave with them, but with me being young and naive trying to prove myself, I declined.

Companies often take advantage of young employees.

The story:

After my boss and colleague left, it was just me on my team and I was in charge of a few markets. I was asked to be on-call for technical support and was not offered anything in return.

At the time, I was upset but also trying to prove myself, so I obliged. I got really stressed out from working thirteen hours a day for a few months at that point and I kept asking my manager to hire more people as I can’t be working like this and it’s stressing me out.

Maybe the CEO can help.

My manager went on and on saying they DoN’t HaVe ThE bUdGeT fOr It, so I just forgot about it, drowning myself in work.

One day, the CEO of the company came and we had dinner as he was growing close to me since I was the only one person left who actually knew the in and out of the old and new system that the company used.

Nope, he doesn’t want to spend the money either.

Keep in mind, this CEO is a cheapskate and will try all and every way to suck you dry. He asked me what I wanted to change in the company during dinner, so I started of with asking for two new hires for my team where he gave me the same answer as my manager.

So, I asked him for a promotion and a raise which was also declined saying YoU dOnT hAvE tHe NeCeSsArY eXpErIeNcE yEt. I was mad.

They can’t expect this guy to work forever without any PTO.

As a normal person would expect, after working thirteen hour days for months, you would need rest. I had almost three weeks of PTO saved and I needed the rest.

The manager threatened to fire me if I took any PTO as no one was able to do what I did. I took the PTO anyways.

That is pretty bold to demand that he train his replacements.

I got well rested and all was good until I came back. There were two new faces and I was pretty confused, so I asked my manager who were they, and she told me they were my replacements.

She told me my notice was two months and I had to train them before I leave. She couldn’t do anything as I was the only one in the company who knew how to run the legacy and the new systems, so realistically she couldn’t say that I was not training them properly as she didn’t know how things work.

She doesn’t know what he is supposed to teach.

Here is the part where the Malicious Compliance happens, since the manager did not know how things work. She told me to train the interns on the legacy systems to “know better” on how the company was built up and I did just that.

She told me strictly to just train the interns on the legacy and she will be dealing with the rest. Sure, I’ll do just that.

Oh, this is even better.

It wasn’t until my last week when the problems really hit. My manager found out that I have been only giving training on the legacy system and I didn’t give them my notes with tips on how to run the system that needed to be used for daily operations.

My manager called in the CEO and the Managing Director to hold a meeting with me asking me why I hadn’t trained my replacements properly.

Wow, did his manager really say this?

I just told them I did what my manager told me, to which the manager denied until I forwarded the CEO and MD the email that my manager has sent me which the call promptly ending.

After I left the company, I was patiently waiting for the call that was bound to come. It was my manager, she demanded me to get back to work and said that the firing was just a prank blah blah blah.

They should just pay him.

I told them, pay me triple my wage and I’ll consider it, they called me crazy and ended the call.

It’s been two months since that call and based on a good friend from another department, my old manager is neck deep in problems.

Companies often try to save money by not hiring the right people, but it ends up costing them way more in the end.

Read on to see what the people in the comments have to say about this situation.

This commenter wouldn’t have trained them at all. I can’t blame them.

Why would anyone train their replacements? It just doesn’t make sense.

This person wouldn’t show up at all.

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Documentation is essential in these situations.

I couldn’t believe this. What kind of manager says something like that.

Telling someone you fired that they have to train their replacement is a bold move. Even if someone is willing to do it, they aren’t likely to put in a lot of effort or do a good job.

This is why it is so important to treat your employees right and have more than one person who can do a job.