[T.B. Yoits]

It’s not that I am “hoarding” things, its that even if they ask me to train other people and teach them, they can never find anyone who is actually capable of absorbing all the things that I could teach. So it doesn’t work. Maybe if they hired five employees for me to train, they could each grasp 20% of my specialized knowledge, but so far they haven’t hit on that strategy.

Too many times you put the diagram down in front of them and watch their eyes glaze over, regardless of how critical or how simple it is.

"Just take care of it." stops being a statement of delegation and changes in meaning to; "This is beyond me. I don't want to deal with it. Don't bring it up to me anymore."

[Boogieman]

Yeah, I have lost count of how many times a new manager has come in, found out that I’ve been with the company for like 2 decades and nobody here knows how to do the things I do, and they say “he needs to crosstrain people, etc”. And then after the first attempt that that, they stop talking about it, and then a month or two later I get a raise without asking for it :)