Employee gets laid off and is asked to train the recent grad replacing him for $12k less, he refuses to play along: ‘They decided to let me go so they could bring in someone cheaper.’

Would you train the person the company hired to replace you for less money?There's something so strange about the way this company decided to fire this employee. When it comes to working for someone, what's more important? Being good at the job and having good performance reviews? Or the salary you have? One would say that having good results is enough, but in this case, this employee got laid off because his salary apparently was too high.Needless to say, this salary was something that was negotiated with the company when he first joined, so it's weird that now they are acting like it's too much money. Of course, this is not what they said to him. They make it look "less important". The employee had a 1:1 with his manager, and she told him that the role was being eliminated. After that, she immediately asked him to train the replacement, Jenna, who's a recent graduate and will be taking over the same responsibilities that he had, only for 12k less per year. So, essentially, they didn't eliminated the role: they just replaced him with someone cheaper. That's what I mean about what's more important, and for some, the amount of money you earn is more valuable than the results you de…

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