Did your previous employer miss you?
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Getting canned end of March, found out there's 2 people replacing me. My boss isn't happy and thinks they will struggle (none of this is down to him and he's fought hard to keep me)
Obviously not my problem now and I'll try and smooth the transition, they should be OK if things don't go wrong. Putting things right is the hard bit.
I'm not bitter, I've got a new job now, start in April, so looking forward to that.
Heard similar stories in other plants recently, some skilled guys have been let go from what I can tell. I really think it will bite when the rest of us leave.
Anyone else?
Obviously not my problem now and I'll try and smooth the transition, they should be OK if things don't go wrong. Putting things right is the hard bit.
I'm not bitter, I've got a new job now, start in April, so looking forward to that.
Heard similar stories in other plants recently, some skilled guys have been let go from what I can tell. I really think it will bite when the rest of us leave.
Anyone else?
My old manager was late 50’s, divorced, she ran off/married someone rich and so he didn’t give her any settlement, i was doing pretty much the same job as him, between us we did all of fixed assets, systems admin, and inter-system recs,
I worked my backside off and had been there 3 years, but the company just saw me as a lowly assistant, I left for a 25% pay rise, 6 months later he was under pressure as the person who replaced me couldn’t keep up, my old manager retired - only had to give a months notice,
The company needed up with a team of 5 to replace us 2, I was on 16k and left for 20k, I had asked for 17.5k and they said no budget, guess that didn’t work out
I worked my backside off and had been there 3 years, but the company just saw me as a lowly assistant, I left for a 25% pay rise, 6 months later he was under pressure as the person who replaced me couldn’t keep up, my old manager retired - only had to give a months notice,
The company needed up with a team of 5 to replace us 2, I was on 16k and left for 20k, I had asked for 17.5k and they said no budget, guess that didn’t work out
I remember a couple of us, who had a bit of a reputation for being sent in to sort out projects where other people had spent all the time and money, but it still needed to be delivered. Tyically we would go in and do in weeks what others had spent many months not doing.
We asked for promotions to the level of those that we were regularly bailing-out, and got nowt, so in a stroke of massive luck, secured transfers to another part of the company, and the promotions we had asked for.
To replace the two of us required around 8 people.
When I finally left the company a few years later, 3 people had to backfill what I was doing, and still struggled.
(edit - my manager chose to be an absolute a
hole when I handed in my resignation, refusing to do anything with it until my final days, and as a result making all the leaving HR admin incredibly difficult. So I chose to not give him the 600 pages of notes that I took day-to-day on how I acheived every task as I was doing it, and left them with more standard documentation instead. A literal instruction book on how to do the work of 3 people, wasted.)
It's right above though - while it does give some satisfaction when their own short sightedness ends up costing them so dearly, that's their problem. Most companies will never acknowledge or accept that reality. Move on, get what you're worth.
We asked for promotions to the level of those that we were regularly bailing-out, and got nowt, so in a stroke of massive luck, secured transfers to another part of the company, and the promotions we had asked for.
To replace the two of us required around 8 people.
When I finally left the company a few years later, 3 people had to backfill what I was doing, and still struggled.
(edit - my manager chose to be an absolute a
hole when I handed in my resignation, refusing to do anything with it until my final days, and as a result making all the leaving HR admin incredibly difficult. So I chose to not give him the 600 pages of notes that I took day-to-day on how I acheived every task as I was doing it, and left them with more standard documentation instead. A literal instruction book on how to do the work of 3 people, wasted.)It's right above though - while it does give some satisfaction when their own short sightedness ends up costing them so dearly, that's their problem. Most companies will never acknowledge or accept that reality. Move on, get what you're worth.
Edited by shtu on Thursday 26th February 22:22
Mine did!
When I left in 2011, I’d had enough of the petty politics and infighting caused by my HoD. I walked straight into a 12 month temporary contract with no leadership responsibilities and enjoyed every minute. On the first day after that contract ended, my previous employer called me to ask if I was available for a 3 month contract and, as my previous HoD had buggered off, I said yes. The temporary contract was periodically extended, on better conditions than my initial employment and each time they advertised “my” job, the candidates that attended interviews weren’t deemed to be good enough. This situation continued until early 2016, when they advertised the job again. This time I told them that, I was getting a bit fed up, so if they appointed someone else, then great, if not, they could appoint me or I would leave at the end of the week. On the day of the interviews, the deputy manager came to me at lunchtime and gave me the job and I stayed there until I retired just after Covid. I didn’t regret any of it, I loved the work, liked the vast majority of my colleagues and once the knobhead HoD had left, the atmosphere improved significantly.
When I left in 2011, I’d had enough of the petty politics and infighting caused by my HoD. I walked straight into a 12 month temporary contract with no leadership responsibilities and enjoyed every minute. On the first day after that contract ended, my previous employer called me to ask if I was available for a 3 month contract and, as my previous HoD had buggered off, I said yes. The temporary contract was periodically extended, on better conditions than my initial employment and each time they advertised “my” job, the candidates that attended interviews weren’t deemed to be good enough. This situation continued until early 2016, when they advertised the job again. This time I told them that, I was getting a bit fed up, so if they appointed someone else, then great, if not, they could appoint me or I would leave at the end of the week. On the day of the interviews, the deputy manager came to me at lunchtime and gave me the job and I stayed there until I retired just after Covid. I didn’t regret any of it, I loved the work, liked the vast majority of my colleagues and once the knobhead HoD had left, the atmosphere improved significantly.
Company I left in 2014. At branch level all was good, got on really well with colleagues and Manager who begged me to stay but Head Office decided I was not the right fit anymore. What that boils down to was company had been taken over and all long standing employees like myself who had just a few extra days holiday a year needed to go, so Head Office slowly chipped away at all of us until we left of our own accord. That is what they wanted, employ someone else on less money and less days holiday but in my role in the last 12 years they have had to employ someone new on average every 18 months. They always use an agency so there is probably £5K in fees each time not to mention when you start a new job, it is natural to make the odd error which would cost them money to put right. So over the 11/12 years they would have spent a fortune needlessly had they just left me alone.
I'd been there 13 years when I left, and I am in a great job now. Have to admit there were a few that were dreadful in between but now I am happily settled in the last 5 years. Every time I see my old job advertised I cannot help but chuckle. There were about a dozen they did this too and now it is like a rotating door of staff.
I'd been there 13 years when I left, and I am in a great job now. Have to admit there were a few that were dreadful in between but now I am happily settled in the last 5 years. Every time I see my old job advertised I cannot help but chuckle. There were about a dozen they did this too and now it is like a rotating door of staff.
I worked for 30 years in a financial institution. I resigned in March a few years ago . The 500 or so people I knew the 25 or so who worked for me , stopped looking at me and immediately focused on their new boss. It's just natural.
We are all absolutely dispensible, and that's how it should be .
Look forward not back.
We are all absolutely dispensible, and that's how it should be .
Look forward not back.
Not long after joining my current employer my line manager left.
I was left wondering "am I that difficult to manage?".
In answer to that question my line manager from my previous employer took the job, so obviously not.
Did my employer miss me? Who knows.
Did my line manager miss me? Well, it certainly looks like it.
I was left wondering "am I that difficult to manage?".
In answer to that question my line manager from my previous employer took the job, so obviously not.
Did my employer miss me? Who knows.
Did my line manager miss me? Well, it certainly looks like it.
cliffords said:
I worked for 30 years in a financial institution. I resigned in March a few years ago . The 500 or so people I knew the 25 or so who worked for me , stopped looking at me and immediately focused on their new boss. It's just natural.
We are all absolutely dispensible, and that's how it should be .
Look forward not back.
Yep, you're just a number.We are all absolutely dispensible, and that's how it should be .
Look forward not back.
Move on is my advice.
Few people are indispensable.
There are a few very niche skills that are seriously hard to replace in technology.
As in there are only a dozen people in the UK with the specific skills, and often they are on decent length notice periods (3-6-12 months), but that is an outlier.
Generally you are replaceable, the question is more how long it takes to find a replacement. Weeks/months/even more.
There are a few very niche skills that are seriously hard to replace in technology.
As in there are only a dozen people in the UK with the specific skills, and often they are on decent length notice periods (3-6-12 months), but that is an outlier.
Generally you are replaceable, the question is more how long it takes to find a replacement. Weeks/months/even more.
Late 90s, I was employed as a Marketing Communication Manager for an industrial coating company. One of my tasks was to bring the production of their mail order catalogues in-house which I ended up doing myself. These were quite complex jobs but I figured out a way to simplify the process and improve how they looked. The job and company wasn't really what I thought it would be and I never really fitted in. I'd been approached to join a Design Company in London which included a 20% shareholding and was weighing up this option when the decision was made for me and the company suggested my time there had run its course. I offered to stay on for a week to hand everything over but they suggested otherwise. I left on Friday morning and on Monday started at the Design Company in London.
There followed numerous calls from my old company asking how to do certain things with the catalogue. These become so frequent that I had to tell them that I no longer work there. If they wanted advice and support, they would need to commission the new company to provide this.
They ended up becoming a client, paying the Design Company five times in fees what they paid me to do the same job!
There followed numerous calls from my old company asking how to do certain things with the catalogue. These become so frequent that I had to tell them that I no longer work there. If they wanted advice and support, they would need to commission the new company to provide this.
They ended up becoming a client, paying the Design Company five times in fees what they paid me to do the same job!
It's a funny one isn't it. I generally think I've always done a pretty good job (although I guess I would say that) but, whenever I've handed my notice in, no one has ever tried to changed my mind, and none of my old employers have ever asked me back.
So perhaps I didn't! It is what it is though, and as I'm in my mid-fifties now I'm hoping my current job (which I've been in for just over a year) is my last one.
So perhaps I didn't! It is what it is though, and as I'm in my mid-fifties now I'm hoping my current job (which I've been in for just over a year) is my last one.
I was in sales for a while.
Twice I was a new employee, given the task of improving flagging sales. I achieved this and then both times got made redundant when sales improved to an acceptable level.
Both companies went to the wall in a couple of years.
I left my last job in the council five years ago. I still get Christmas cards from the public I dealt with in my department saying I need to go back and sort it out again.
Twice I was a new employee, given the task of improving flagging sales. I achieved this and then both times got made redundant when sales improved to an acceptable level.
Both companies went to the wall in a couple of years.
I left my last job in the council five years ago. I still get Christmas cards from the public I dealt with in my department saying I need to go back and sort it out again.
In 2009 I was employed as an manufacturing improvement engineer by a company that had lots of mixing machines and pumps and moulded stuff for the off shore oil industry.
I'd spent quite a time using 6 sigma tools minitab, design of experiments to optimise a particular product line. 1st pass yield went from 50% to 100%
Wrote a really nice SOP which an idiot could follow on the steps needed to fill, reconditioned, mix and mould.
Basically, turn knob A to 5, press start A
After 15 minutes Turn knob b to 6. Press start A.
Fully documented. Document numbers etc.
There was a 10% cull of staff. I was made redundant.
3 months pay in lieu of notice, and use of my work computer to help me job search.
I was 2 weeks into the job search, was waiting to hear back about an interview and they rang up asking for the laptop back, so i had to go in with it. When I got there my old boss, said "can you just look at that machine with Bob. Its been making scrap all week"
I'm not one to burn bridges so I went out onto the factory floor and said "Where's the operating procedure"
"Didn't know we had one"
"Oh look its document number is listed on the job card, so if it's not here we could print one out. Oh look. Heres a laminated copy attached to the machine.... You follow that whilst I go and find some safety shoes as he shouldn't have let me walk out here in trainers"
I came back after having a coffee in the canteen and getting my safety boots out of the car, after about 30 mins.
Parts all coming out to spec.
I told Bob they made the wrong guy redundant, and he looked pained.
Went back to the office, found my old boss, and said "the learning exercise from this is that you marked me down for attitude because i disagreed with you when i knew you were wrong, when you should have marked Bob down for being a sycophantic idiot. Any more issues ask him if I might have written an SOP first. Anyway happy to help, let me know if you need me again"
I'd spent quite a time using 6 sigma tools minitab, design of experiments to optimise a particular product line. 1st pass yield went from 50% to 100%
Wrote a really nice SOP which an idiot could follow on the steps needed to fill, reconditioned, mix and mould.
Basically, turn knob A to 5, press start A
After 15 minutes Turn knob b to 6. Press start A.
Fully documented. Document numbers etc.
There was a 10% cull of staff. I was made redundant.
3 months pay in lieu of notice, and use of my work computer to help me job search.
I was 2 weeks into the job search, was waiting to hear back about an interview and they rang up asking for the laptop back, so i had to go in with it. When I got there my old boss, said "can you just look at that machine with Bob. Its been making scrap all week"
I'm not one to burn bridges so I went out onto the factory floor and said "Where's the operating procedure"
"Didn't know we had one"
"Oh look its document number is listed on the job card, so if it's not here we could print one out. Oh look. Heres a laminated copy attached to the machine.... You follow that whilst I go and find some safety shoes as he shouldn't have let me walk out here in trainers"
I came back after having a coffee in the canteen and getting my safety boots out of the car, after about 30 mins.
Parts all coming out to spec.
I told Bob they made the wrong guy redundant, and he looked pained.
Went back to the office, found my old boss, and said "the learning exercise from this is that you marked me down for attitude because i disagreed with you when i knew you were wrong, when you should have marked Bob down for being a sycophantic idiot. Any more issues ask him if I might have written an SOP first. Anyway happy to help, let me know if you need me again"
Not sure "missed me" is the right words but a good number of years ago I was working in a department with a team I particularly enjoyed and kept my head down doing my job to a high standard. Senior management decided a big reshuffle was in order for "staff development" and I was moved from a role I enjoyed back to a previous role (on the same money), I felt I was going around in circles without progressing so I applied elsewhere and fairly quickly found a new role.
I was told my previous management were telling anyone who would listed I was just leaving because I was throwing my teddy out of the cot and I should have stayed, I can't say it bothered me and I have never looked back
I was told my previous management were telling anyone who would listed I was just leaving because I was throwing my teddy out of the cot and I should have stayed, I can't say it bothered me and I have never looked back
Unfortunately we are just numbers at the end of the day.
Someone once said to me this analogy of leaving a work place.
Imaging throwing a brick into a lake, initially you will see many ripples you can see, then eventually they will fade over time and be no more.
What you do outside of work, and with whom should be more important.
Someone once said to me this analogy of leaving a work place.
Imaging throwing a brick into a lake, initially you will see many ripples you can see, then eventually they will fade over time and be no more.
What you do outside of work, and with whom should be more important.
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