My 3 months notice ends tomorow. To be fair, since they didn't find any replacement, I offer to take the entire week to write a document about how to perform my job, since I'm litterally the only one in the office who currently knows how to do it.
My 2 managers agreed, my first one even telling me to stop my other tasks (that I wouldn't have time to finish before tomorrow anyway) and focus on that document.
But my director, the higher in the company, is going absolutly nuts. He is constantly coming back and forth, giving me new files to analyse, new clients to phone, new websites to complete, etc… needless to say, he seems to be just realizing the amount of work I was providing, and is really scared about the future potential fallout.
I'm really divided between finishing my document and not doing any of the tasks he is asking me, or doing the tasks and leaving the future employee to figure out how to do the job (technically what I did). I won't have time for both.
Anyway, that's kinda funny to witness.
So much for saying that engineers are a “dirty race”, and for stating that diplomas don't make you valuable and don't make you entitled to have a better salary, dear boss !
(Yeap, I'm an engineer, and those are actual quotes I heard when I was not supposed to. I had confirmation last week when we were talking with another new employee about our salaries, and it appeared that after 2 years of working there with my degree, I was earning 100€ (107$) more than her who had just been hired and had no degree. And she is not particularly well paid either, she is just glad it's more than minimum wage. But even her was appaled by that small amount, and she asked me why did I bothered with long and hard studies. I had no answer…)