Laid off am I obligated to train during transition

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't you? Spite isn't a great reason.

Because I am not obligated to give my knowledge out? And If they need my knowledge why not to keep me?

Did you sign anything? We have our employees sign documents. Your knowledge about our business and products is OUR knowledge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't you? Spite isn't a great reason.

Because I am not obligated to give my knowledge out? And If they need my knowledge why not to keep me?

Did you sign anything? We have our employees sign documents. Your knowledge about our business and products is OUR knowledge.

Ummm no I did not sign anything. My knowledge is not anyone’s property, but my skill set.

[Anonymous]

OP, just make a list of tasks/outstanding to do and send that along. Let them know where the relevant files are, or forward them along. No need to give away your strategy or skills - stick to tasks that must be done. They can figure out HOW to do those tasks on their own, or pay you a consulting fee after this week.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To answer your question...no you are not at all "legally obligated."

To answer the question you did not ask....you should spend a good portion of the time you are still getting paid to perform work for that company helping out the new person. That is a human who did not wrong you in any way, and if you can make their life easier why wouldn't you?

Seriously? I have to give away my strategy to make someone’s life easy? I have many years of experience to learn what I know and now I just have to give it away to make someone’s life easier?

They paid you for those many years of experience you spent learning your strategy, right? They're paying you for these last few days, right? You don't need to go above and beyond or anything, but yes, you should work for the time you're getting paid, and if your assignment is to train someone, then that's your assignment.

No they did not. I came from my on consulting business recently. Everything I learned was def not from them

So clearly you won't be able to teach all of your hard-won consulting knowledge and strategies in three days if it took you years to perfect. Teach her the basics of the job and move on. This isn't hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't you? Spite isn't a great reason.

Because I am not obligated to give my knowledge out? And If they need my knowledge why not to keep me?

Did you sign anything? We have our employees sign documents. Your knowledge about our business and products is OUR knowledge.

Ummm no I did not sign anything. My knowledge is not anyone’s property, but my skill set.

You can be terminated and lose severance if you are not performing your duties like kt

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't you? Spite isn't a great reason.

Because I am not obligated to give my knowledge out? And If they need my knowledge why not to keep me?

Did you sign anything? We have our employees sign documents. Your knowledge about our business and products is OUR knowledge.

Ummm no I did not sign anything. My knowledge is not anyone’s property, but my skill set.

If you haven't signed your severance yet (and most companies do not sent it until your last day / after your last day) then you need to be an adult and wrap up your duties at your job. Don't put the severance at jeopardy.

Based on the way you are responding to people in this thread who are just trying to help you, it's a wonder you were selected to be laid off! Grow up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't you? Spite isn't a great reason.

Because I am not obligated to give my knowledge out? And If they need my knowledge why not to keep me?

Did you sign anything? We have our employees sign documents. Your knowledge about our business and products is OUR knowledge.

Ummm no I did not sign anything. My knowledge is not anyone’s property, but my skill set.

If you haven't signed your severance yet (and most companies do not sent it until your last day / after your last day) then you need to be an adult and wrap up your duties at your job. Don't put the severance at jeopardy.

Based on the way you are responding to people in this thread who are just trying to help you, it's a wonder you were selected to be laid off! Grow up.

Really don’t care about severance of 2 weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't you? Spite isn't a great reason.

Because I am not obligated to give my knowledge out? And If they need my knowledge why not to keep me?

Did you sign anything? We have our employees sign documents. Your knowledge about our business and products is OUR knowledge.

Then you teach your employees.

[Anonymous]

Do it but do with bare minimal; don’t slack too obviously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To answer your question...no you are not at all "legally obligated."

To answer the question you did not ask....you should spend a good portion of the time you are still getting paid to perform work for that company helping out the new person. That is a human who did not wrong you in any way, and if you can make their life easier why wouldn't you?

If OP's work is so essential someone needs to be trained, maybe they shouldn't have laid OP off.

I would not train my replacement any more than asking "what questions do you have?" while I drank my coffee and packed my cube.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How long is your transition period? Can you call out sick?

Officially until end of this month, but they will be sending shipping labels by the end of this week to ship our laptops. So I pretty much have 3 days.

You sound like you were WFH? If so, doesn't matter what you do at this point!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't you? Spite isn't a great reason.

Because I am not obligated to give my knowledge out? And If they need my knowledge why not to keep me?

Did you sign anything? We have our employees sign documents. Your knowledge about our business and products is OUR knowledge.

Ummm no I did not sign anything. My knowledge is not anyone’s property, but my skill set.

You can be terminated and lose severance if you are not performing your duties like kt

dp Didn't that just happen?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How long is your transition period? Can you call out sick?

Officially until end of this month, but they will be sending shipping labels by the end of this week to ship our laptops. So I pretty much have 3 days.

You sound like you were WFH? If so, doesn't matter what you do at this point!

Correct, WFH.
But there are ongoing projects and new person asking to assist with them as well besides training. I am putting an hour with her and going to finish this damn project for this month.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't you? Spite isn't a great reason.

Because I am not obligated to give my knowledge out? And If they need my knowledge why not to keep me?

Did you sign anything? We have our employees sign documents. Your knowledge about our business and products is OUR knowledge.

Ummm no I did not sign anything. My knowledge is not anyone’s property, but my skill set.

You can be terminated and lose severance if you are not performing your duties like kt

dp Didn't that just happen?

Lol!

[Anonymous]

You're taking the lay-off personally, but it had nothing to do with you. Be professional and explain what you do. The company I work for has cut too deep at times and brought people back. If that happens you can go back on your terms - PT, contractor, etc. - while you look for a new job.