Today, I found out the procedure manual I've been creating for months and finally finished is going to be used to train the person replacing me. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I learned that for the next two months I'll get to train physicians on how to use the computer program that has made my job obsolete. I've known this program was coming for months, but I didn't know it would be taking my job. FML
Today, I began training my replacement at work. She's a senior citizen. She got excited when I taught her how to highlight text on the screen and double-click the mouse because she "never knew how to do those fancy tricks." The job is entirely computer-based. I have to train her for 6 weeks. FML
Today, I found out that a co-worker of mine that I had originally hired, trained, and mentored to work in my department for the past 4 years had just got the promotion that I had applied for. He is now my boss. FML
Today, I found out that a co-worker has been promoted to Store Manager. She has been here for less than 6 months, and I have been with the company for 10 years. Guess who has been training her for the last 6 months. FML
Today, it's my first day as the boss, after waiting months for this promotion. Today is also the day my replacement, who I trained for three months, quit. Now I've got two jobs for the price of one. FML
Today, my boss sent me some application forms to check over. After I spell-checked them and returned them, I found out they're going to be used to hire someone to replace me. FML
Today, I started a new job. After being trained on several obscure computer programs I'm expected to use in just one day, my new boss informed me she's going on a week long vacation starting tomorrow. She's the only other person who knows how this program runs. FML
Today, my boss reached a new low when, after three software upgrades, she refused to let me update the user manual that I wrote a year ago. She has also cancelled the training sessions I set up to help people learn the new software. People are asking me why I'm not doing my job anymore. FML
Today, my new manager, who I have spent the last three months training, had a managers' meeting and now won't be returning. FML
Today, after working at the same place for 3 years, I found out that they are not only cutting my hours but now I have to take orders from some girl I trained because she was promoted over me. FML
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RichardPencil 32
Are you sure you can't do some last-minute edits and trash all earlier versions? In the manual, say the boss likes to be addressed as "****-face", customers like to be mooned and the company signal for "good job" is an upturned middle finger. Leak that version on the internet and you'll be epic.
mandymoo78 22
Shred it!
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mandymoo78 22
Shred it!
RichardPencil 32
Are you sure you can't do some last-minute edits and trash all earlier versions? In the manual, say the boss likes to be addressed as "****-face", customers like to be mooned and the company signal for "good job" is an upturned middle finger. Leak that version on the internet and you'll be epic.
Razell 13
That's... kind of the entire point of procedure manuals. To train the next person so that there's no discontinuity in operations, especially when the original worker leaves before the replacement comes in. If the replacement is a surprise to you, that's a dick move on the company's part, but if you've known that you're being replaced for a while, or if you planned to leave, then this shouldn't be a shocking to you. What really sucks is when you finish the procedures manual and the company immediately changes the systems you're supposed to use for your job.
protoskore 27
most editing software has the option to password lock a file. just saying.
Chazzster 32
Do not obviously sabotage the manual. But once you are no longer employed, you don’t have to answer any questions - And there are always questions. Practice “I’ll get back to you on that, my new job has me busy.”