Fired for being too good!

simplyforum submitted 604 days ago

My contract has been terminated early for being over productive and being extremely good at my job. I was there for over three years. I was considered extremely efficient and learned a very complex system very fast. They hired two permanent employees within four months of my initial hired date. Both people had over ten year experiences in IT each. (I had twelve at the time.)

I was given notice because the permanent employees would not do their share of the work or even bother to learn the system. "You are doing all the work and people come to you for help first before anyone else".

I have never be accused of 'hindering the development of permanent employees because everyone requests me for assignments and production fixes'.

The best part is they wanted me to stay on for another month to help the transition. The professional thing to do was to leave. Why would the manager feel by getting rid of the most productive person would force people to start taking an interest in their job? I will never know. I do know that the people who are going to pay are the other productive members of the team an the system itself.

It is just ironic that you get punished for going a great job.

At other contracts, I have trained dozen of employees and have received great praised on my training ability.

I was given one of the employees to train after a year on production balancing issues. I would show her how to approach such issues and how to go about resolving them . I would do the first one or two with her watching me. Then I started giving her ones to do herself. If it was extremely difficult (high priority usually), she would take call in sick until I had it done. Otherwise, she would just blow it off. When I asked her about it, she would say she would get to it....until I finally do it because month-end balancing was closing near. I was told by another senior to back off on her because the employee complained I was harassing her.