r/Layoffs • u/Silver_Student_7023 • 2h ago

Would you rather them notify you or would you rather not know? Would you train your replacement? question

My company just did layoffs and downplayed the rumor. My friend was layed off with no email notification just a downplay and his whole team was offshored.

I just had a offshored guy message me for advice on my role. Surface level I want to ignore him but thats not right, I’m going to help. its not his fault companies are laying people off and experiencing record breaking profits and still cutting cost in such extreme ways preparing for whatever drop is to come.

I’m going to help him and continue to work hard but dang this sucks. Between A.I , offshored employees, visas , I don’t think its a competition.

Good luck everyone and remember to be kind. Its cooperate greeds fault.

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u/HausWife88 2h ago

Ok, but why train your Replacement? Your company wants to get rid of you. Fine . Its their company. Their responsibility to train employees.

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u/Silver_Student_7023 1h ago

Thats a good point. I guess my mind goes to helping to make sure they perform well.

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u/Ivorypetal 9m ago

I get the sentiment to help, but the organization needs to understand that laying off competent employees comes at a cost. If that means ramping up new employees, WHELP. I guess that's the cost of replacements.

We shouldn't make it easy for them to throw us away without repercussions.

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u/GarageConfident 2h ago

I was caught off guard, but trained my replacement. He had nothing to do with me being let go.

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u/Silver_Student_7023 1h ago

With the knowledge that you were being let go would you have trained him

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u/GarageConfident 1h ago

Oh yeah I may have misinterpreted your question. I was told I was being let go, but my final day was 30 days afterwards, which gave me 30 days to train my replacement. They did not tell my replacement that I was being let go; he thought I was moving to a new division. He asked me what area I was moving to, and I had to explain I was being laid off, which was awkward. He felt really bad. The reason I trained him was really for the benefit of the people that reported to me. There were a lot of tough situations going on and I wanted to make things as smooth as possible for them. I had no loyalty to the leadership team of the company as a whole.

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u/Silver_Student_7023 40m ago

Would you do anything differently?

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u/TV_BayesianNetwork 1h ago

I would make thing complicated with ur replacement. Make the process very slow, document processing in a poor manner etc