Given 60 days to train my replacements, under threat of losing severance.
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I was given what they called an "extended transition period." Sixty days. Presented as generosity. In practice: sixty days of documenting everything I knew, training the contractors taking over my work, sitting in handover meetings while knowing I was the one being handed over.
HR made it clear that failure to co-operate with the transition could affect my severance calculation.
So I trained them. I wrote the documentation. I answered the questions. I made it as easy as possible for the company to do without me.
On day sixty, I left. The contractors immediately started calling with questions about things they hadn't understood during the handover. I didn't pick up.
I don't know the right word for being asked to make your own redundancy as smooth as possible, under financial threat. They called it a "generous transition."
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