Former boss asking current boss for my time?

stevetuk

PlutoinCapricorn wrote: »

Some posters thought that you were letting the team down or damaging the company by not going back to help your old department out, but what effect would this have had on your new department and thus the whole organisation?

It does not help any company in the long run to help to hide incompetence and bad planning.

I went back over the files/records. I held over 20 meetings and training sessions during the notice period to train up other staff. Most of these were 2 hour meetings, some were longer. Every aspect of my role was handed over to at least two people, in some instances three or four. I documented all aspects of the process. All staff involved understood they would cascade training to my successor. The request was obviously just for convenience but like you say, it would have impacted on my new department ergo the institution when in fact there was clearly (it turns out) no real need at all.

Yeah, I was surprised how quick people were to offer judgements about a situation they knew very little about. I appreciate the initial post was a bit general but obviously you don't go into a huge level of detail on a forum about an issue like this. To instantly leap to dramatic (and really inappropriate and aggressive) conclusions like "you're evidently not a team player" or "you have a huge ego" is quite disappointing. But there you go, it's a forum on the Internet - I should have expected that I suppose!

Thanks everyone who contributed (something meaningful and constructive) Happy for this thread to fade off into history now!

wapow

stevetuk wrote: »

As the Magic 8-Ball would say - "all signs point to yes"
When pressed for the specifics they had no business case/justification or need and had to admit that. Fortunately they did, and so it didn't become the unpleasant mess it could have been...! I must admit, I was surprised they didn't argue the case (at all). I did expect this to become problematic. Think I over-worried!

Im fairly certain that something happened between the shadows which meant they would not argue the case. Well done. Let this be a lesson to those softies out there that sometimes you need to stand your ground and not ki$$ bare cheek every chance you get.