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Discussion on: Career Advice: Work Yourself Out of Your Job

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Alberto Calabrese • Edited

This is very interesting. Never saw this way. Sadly sometimes you don't meet very good people. You obviously can find the bad guy that replaces you after you trained someone.

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Lorenzo Pasqualis

That does happen, but the question to ask is "why." Looking at that person as a "bad guy" is a way to explain it, but is that good explanation? What would be the evil motivation of someone to replace a highly productive individual? Why would they do that? Most likely there was something not quite right with the performance of the individual who was replaced. Maybe there were misunderstandings, or maybe incompatibilities, or maybe the person who was replaced was simply not very effective. Hard to generalize as there are so many realities that depend on the context, but asking "why" is key for growth.