As the title says, I’m looking for ideas on how to discourage my replacement from joining my company and pause the timer on my termination.
I have a relatively rare skill set and am an expensive resource for my company.
About a year ago my company started asking me to interview people with my skill set to join my team, promising me a promotion to mange this person. I killed myself working like crazy since then to prove my leadership skills.
Despite being a high performer, I suspected and later confirmed by seeing our departments budget forecast that they are planning on not only not promoting me but replacing me with this much cheaper person a few months after they join my team and learn the work.
I now want to quit and leave them with no replacement.
This person will be relocating from overseas with their family for this job in March 2024. So although they have accepted I know they have not quit their current job just yet. This person said they will quit their current position in January after their shares in their current company vest.
This person connected with me on LinkedIn after accepting our companies offer so I do have communication access to them (I of course have their resume as well).
This person will have a very unrealistic workload put on them and will deal with an environment that has turned very toxic so it’s not totally unethical to discourage them. Especially since they are moving their entire life and family to another country. Furthermore I know this candidate expressed a lot of dissatisfaction with the offered salary and joined relatively reluctantly. This person is likely on the border of not accepting anyways.
Thoughts on how to gently dissuade them without them letting our company know I have done so?
I plan on quitting once I find a new job which will realistically take me until Jan-Feb.
For obvious reasons, I don’t want my company to know I discouraged this new hire until I quit. But I also don’t want to wait until this candidate has quit their existing job.