I’ve worked with a company now for two years and found out a little over a week ago that I would not have a job starting the week before Christmas. Basically, i’ve been working remotely on the other side of the US and made the choice to not move to the location where the company is based when they mandated a return to the office. My performance has been great and isn’t the issue according to my managers, the owners of the company just want people in office.
While I think the decision is a poor one for them, that’s not what this post is about.
In the last several days they’ve organized an 8 page document for me to outline everything that I have ever done with the company year by year, month by month, day by day, hour by hour, and how they can move forward. They want a breakdown of everything I know, and they want a manual telling them how to do my job without having me as an employee.
So my question is: am I wrong to think that what they are asking is ridiculous? They let me go. I’m fine providing any of the internal documents I have and have worked on. But a fully laid out blueprint of how to do my job? Even asking for a detailed manual of tips tricks and techniques I’ve been learning since well before I was ever employed with them? It’s not like I was provided with anything like that when I started with them.
They are even asking for my personal logins for tools that I’ve found through the years that they haven’t paid for.
Basically, do I really owe this to them as a soon former employee that is already spending much of their time job searching? Isn’t my skill set what makes me valuable and what made them need me to hire me in the first place?