First meeting was 3 weeks ago to teach somebody part of my job, and now I have another meeting next week with a different team member to teach them another part.
I'm the only person on my team that does my role.
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You only have 2 parts to your job?? Yea, you've been a dead-man walking for a long time. Enjoy your summer!
I just drink beer and party during the day; then teach when i can
Don’t bother asking your Manager. They are never transparent. After 6 years of 5’s and an occasional 4 rating, 3 Gold Coins, numerous Team Excellence, etc. and Manager sending me more Wells ware than I’d ever want ... gone, “displaced”, with no hint at all. Trust no one!
Yes.
The inference that the SPOF is the fault of the employee is in error. A lot of these happen because of a lack of investment in backups and the inability to get access to core tech so managers will hire a unicorn with a completely averse skill set to the rest of the team that they could not hope to learn.
Case in point is reporting and data centric people. They hire specialists because the core services in their irgs wont or cant take on their front line work, but they need it to do their work.
You should ask your manager to be cross trained on critical job tasks from other positions as well. Besides looking like you support the whole idea of cross training, her/his response may tell you everything you need to know about your future .
So when you go on PTO, does your work halt or does no one really care? I’d be concerned if it were the latter. If it’s the former, your manager might be concerned about single point of failure as there are lots of discussions going on right now about those (in our world anyhow).
If you're the only person on the team that does what you do then you are a single point of failure for your team.
Single points of failure are very, very bad things.
Why don't you just ask them?
More likely your manager had an "oh sh--!" moment. There are a lot of unhappy people at WFC, and your manager may have woken up and realized there is a chance you'd leave due to the current climate.
Without cross training others to fill a void if you left, your manager would have a lot of explaining to do and put a target on his/her back.
Now if you are crosstraining people offshore, then start to worry.
Ask your manager. No one here knows
It's standard procedure to have all your processes documented and placed on a share drive and have at least one backup.
There is an initiative in our area to eliminate single points of failure and to ensure all processes have secondary - and in some cases tertiary backup.
Perhaps your area is going through the same?
Every employee should have a backup. It is concerning, though, because of the timing with layoffs.
It sure is tempting to omit a few critical points, isn’t it?
You may very well be, or they may actually be proactive and be cross training to make sure there is not only one person who knows what you do in case you move on.
On second thought, they are never proactive here. They weren’t with me when I left my last role.