Training your replacement
Training your replacement
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What would you do if you suspected you were going to be laid off at the end of the month and were being asked to begin training your successor?
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RE: Training your replacement
RE: Training your replacement
But this would be for a consulting contract that is ending and probably not going to be renewed. -So I guess "laid off" may not be the correct terminology.
RE: Training your replacement
If it where for a possible none-renewal of time-limited contract or possible none 'new engagement for a coming project':
Ask for your chances, your asking would probably not alter the 'hard facts'.
Reaction: If negative or neutral : Try to argument in a reasonable and positive way, don't burn your bridges, there could always be a next crossroad.
RE: Training your replacement
Local definition of a consultant "someone who borrows your watch to tell you the time"
Cheers
Greg Locock
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RE: Training your replacement
With your contract ending and apparently not being renewed, I assume either you preferred remaining a contract consultant and did not express permanent interest in the position or the company has determined that someone else might be a better "fit". Either way, I would recommend training them as best you can and call it good at that.
Regards,
RE: Training your replacement
It's no different than if they hired you as a mechanical engineer, and then asked you to do some electrical transformer design (assuming you have the skills). The contract is the governing document. If it's not in the contract, then it is not in the contract. If nothing else, my rates are different for what I do.
"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater."
Albert Einstein
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RE: Training your replacement
RE: Training your replacement
Cheers
Greg Locock
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RE: Training your replacement
As a new business owner I would like my first clients to provide good references for those that will come after them.
I think that offering training within the context and topics of the deliverables my assignment here is reasonable and I will not withhold any information/knowledge/know-how that was applied towards reaching those results.
Einstein said, "The more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know." -Maybe they'll ask me for more help when they have extra funding...