For years now, I have been baffled by this docile acceptance of aiding in your own professional execution.
If I were hired for a certain position, and later was asked to train my own replacement, I would refuse, for the record, citing the rational explanation that that was not the job description for which I applied and for which I was hired.
Training new employees is a distinctly separate job description.
I do this job for X$ an hour. I do training for 50X$ an hour.
The outcome would certainly be interesting!
Companies dangle your severance in front of you to get you to train your replacement.
I’m disgusted that so many Americans fake disability as jobs disappear, but I get it is one last way to get back at corporate America (a large segment of our taxpayers).
No it wouldn't, the employee would just lose their severance package and probably just let go then and there as a message to others. Usually a severance package is dangled in front of those who will be let go in exchange for doing the company's final pieces of business. It sucks, but it is what it is.