“I Was Asked to Train My Higher-Paid Replacement—So I Ended Up Teaching My Boss an Unexpected Lesson”

Training, Redefined

From that moment on, I trained her strictly by the book. No shortcuts, no undocumented processes, no tricks I’d developed over years of unpaid overtime. Just the bare minimum duties they were actually paying for.

Whenever she asked how I handled escalations, crashes, supply chain issues, or vendor disputes, I gave the same calm reply:
“You’ll need to check with management. I wasn’t officially assigned those tasks.”

Each time, my boss’s jaw tightened. The work he had ignored was now flooding back onto his plate.

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