If I'm dismissed, I fear the team might collapse. It's not that I can't be replaced eventually, but all team members have under two years at the company. They're just learning the basics, akin to refueling a car or putting air in the tires, and aren't yet capable of more intricate tasks like checking or changing the oil. Meanwhile, our leadership seems to believe we’ve already upgraded to a Tesla that neither requires gas nor oil changes.
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Once my replacement is hired, I will train them to the best of my ability. BUT that will not make them successful. In my group they could normally get help from other long-timers if I left, but many of them are also being let go for not relocating.
Six months is not enough training time for my job, and especially because the remaining 'team' won't be able to help much either after we leave.
When every process, procedure, and cross team interaction is an uncommunicated moving target and the most common response from others is, "not my problem" or "I dunno", training low quality inexperienced replacements won't matter anyway.
Just leave out those mundane details.
60 days of training in this industry won’t make much impact anyways. After being here for over a decade, I’m still learning new things.
To be honest my jersey replacements don't have much interest in getting trained anyway. Oh well best of luck I guess won't be my issue.
As if I had any time... I was let go at 3pm and shipped my gear back next morning.
People aren’t replaced timely anyway…goes to show you just how valued you are…NOT! When I leave it will be on my terms and sudden
The trend this past year has been for Fiserv to hire consultants, those that they laid off to come back and work but not as employees of Fiserv but under contract.
Do not train them or train them incorrectly. I have faith in a firm who outsources me and others to think that others are as good. "You have met all your goals, done a magnificent job and will be terminated in 2 weeks." So ---- take that attitude and I have an equal one for the firm. (If you are in IT and have access to servers, do not to damage but hide a few dead fish in the room. It will become really nice in a few weeks).
I have a strong affinity for my clients, I’ll train my replacement to the best of my ability because the clients deserve that.
They never replaced my position from over a year ago, that’s why they call it downsizing.
If severance is involved, of course you train your replacement. There is no way a replacement will understand or retain the information but severance dollars will be paid. In the meantime, sadly, it is the client who will suffer.
Won’t they take away the severance package if we don’t train them well?
Train them, just forget some of the steps, put the steps in the wrong order, and be sure to remove or update your online process to something that will not work. Add steps that will slow down or make all the other steps fail.
Train those replacements up the best you can!!! We appreciate you.
You should give 110% in training you replacement. It doesn't matter. Fiserv will make sure they fail anyway.
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I heard there will be no replacements …
I was let go in June of 2022. Still no replacement.
What replacement