I've seen people doing a job so well, I thought they could never be replaced.

The plain truth is we can all be replaced. Time marches on.

I’ve seen it a bunch where I work. We are like scales on a giant snake, one falls off, another takes it’s place, even the big shots.

We had a saying at the post office.....no one is indispensable. They might thing they are, but they're not. Life always goes on.

maybe they got busted checkin out kiddie porn on a work computer

My my Bernice...he seemed like such a nice feller, I like the way he wrapped the napkin around the bottom of my hamburger, he did such a fine job

My boss would replace me in an instant if he could, with a 20 year old version of myself!

Do you sit up at night thinking this crap up?

Being the replacement is not as easy as it might look. In the case of being a father, or grandfather.

The next decade is going to surprise a lot of people that get replaced,....by machines.

My old job.....they laid 600 off in one swoop.
i was just a tech, did repair and other under micriscope.
A gift/ talent...... not learned

Former boss called a couple months later asking me to come back and work contract for half the pay. Needs me to bail a project out.

Nope.

Former customer ( good dude ) asked ne last yr to work for him at the old place.

Salaried. Mgmnt could cut me at any time. Not gonna happen twice.

Was considered best in a large corp. No, from other discussions, pretty sure I was not replaced.

They simply did without.

My whole old dept is gone. The 5 million dollar lab (80's pricing ) is a storage room

Now my job ( diff company )......is crap. Easily replaced. Just a number. Zero job satiafaction.
But decent pay and insurance.

And if they shut down or lay off they gotta pay me more to be gone

Just get the old guys to train the new guys before you run old guys off.

Yep. As soon as you teach an illegal to do your job as well as you can but at half the money, you're gone.

I can retire at any time, every year of service gives me 225.00 more a month on my pension, trying to make a couple of more years. I like working and drawing my Social Security. It shows up like magic the second Wednesday of the month. I’ve already trained my replacement. I don’t have to do equipment operating much anymore. They are gonna have to find another plumber that can weld or hire it out. I don’t give a cshit.

Anyone can be replaced. When my wife retired (third time....) within weeks she was replaced. By three people.

Either she got better at her job, or more stupid, or the up-comers aren't that good. The first two times she retired it only took 2 people to do the work she had been doing.

Good thing she was so busy all those decades maybe. Too busy to replace me!

sha-nay-nay wanted her fitt-teens dolla buh-owa she aint thank bout all dat

If you can’t be replaced you can’t be promoted.



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I don’t think they will replace plumber-pipefitters with machines, but they have made materials that are less labor intensive.

I was asked to train my employer's younger brother and did a good job of it. I was let go, so the brother could take my job. I called up all the old clients I wanted to do business with and stole about 65% of my prior employer's business.

They screamed like wounded eagles!

Never say never

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I get replaced frequently.

My primary duty is in a production support fab shop for a large primary metals producer. I make stuff for the furnaces and equipment used to make metal.

There is frequently need for repair welders in the production plant, and I am usually sent. The company position on manning jobs states that any competent millwright in the facility can do any and all jobs at the facility. So when I'm out doing repair welding they usually stick some other guy in the fab shop.

And occasionally I return to the fab shop to find that my replacement did creditable work.

But I aint skeered for my job yet...

I bet you felt bad.......not

I worked for a LARGE hard drive company in their R&D facility. All of a sudden a group of Chinese people from the same company show up to "shadow" us for about a month.

Uppers told us they were here to see how our processes could be used to help improve the Asian markets.

It only took a day or two before we realized they were here to replace us and I wish I had a picture of our VP's face when confronted during an all hands meeting!!

After his long, drawn out song and dance he thought he had our division calmed to the point of acceptance. WRONG!

Skip about 3 months and then we were all called to an emergency meeting and that is when they dropped the bomb that our division was merging with asia and many would be let go.

They gave us 3 months to find a transfer internally or if we stayed the full 3 months and left we would get a fairly substantial bonus along with some other incentives.

Bottom line is I witnessed some of the most experienced and talented engineers in that company get replaced by a fresh out of school Chinese engineer.

Our manager told us their justification was that for every American engineer they could hire 6-8 Chinese.

Glad to say about a year later they came to realize that the number of engineers they hired couldn't make up for decades of experience!

Elk Country

Every even little grocery store used to have a trained meat cutter.
Not many retail meat cutters left

Way mo betta to be indomitable than to be irreplaceable.

Geno

Started moving machinery (factories) in the early 70's all the big corporations, aircraft, steel, printing, racing the works. All gone now. Johnw's post reminded of all the racing wheel plants I moved machinery for. American, Western, Halibrand and another I can't remember the name of. Don't believe any are left The old Uniroyal tire corporation The Citadel, Rocketdyne, Rockwell, Hugh's Aircraft, Hugh's Helicopter. the old Martin Marietta plant. both Bethlehem and Kaiser Steel Movie studios. Too many to list but they employed millions. A lot years and a lot of old memories.

Phil

Yup... Last car dealer I worked at the owner thought this new, young ambitious kid would do his job AND mine.. I got laid off.. Two weeks later the kid was burned out and left.. The owner called me, acknowledge he'd made a mistake and asked me to come back.. I very politely told him 'no'...

Six months later I'm working on firearms and thinking this was the best thing I've ever done.. And I STILL have occasional nightmares about the car biz...

Iirc, Gayghost, under your pal we lost about 65,000 mfg companies, many moving to China, including his bud who headed up GE and who headed up his US jobs recovery program.

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/30/no-obama-you-presided-over-loss-manufacturing-jobs/

Your buds the Clinton's, Piglosi, Feinstein, Biden, Kerry and others sold out the US to move the lead of world power to China, which is what the whole purpose of the TRUMP/CHINA trade talks and tariffs are about and the USMCA trade agreement your pos commie buds worked to prevent.

The China tariffs your commie dimocraps and MSM buds were crapping themselves about and predicting the end of the world about successfully cut the profits of American companies in China resulting in them leaving China in droves and returning their companies to the US, thanks to TRUMP.

No thanks to you and your subversive buds, Trump has shifted the power of world economic leadership from China back to the US.

Remember when your traitor POTUS bill Clinton was giving billions to NK to build nuclear weapons and ICBMs? Christopher Warren would not allow Bill to sell our missile guidance tech for money for his campaign to China from his bud, Bernard Swartz (loral space and orbital science) so bill got the business transferred to Ron Browns cabinet position. Sold the tech and then we had the greatest govt scandal in US history called China gate.

When investigations started involving Ron Brown, Bill had him take a fact finding trip to Eastern Europe where his plane unfortunately happened to blow up in midair, killing lots of innocent folks.

FF to your bud the muzzy Zero releasing the $150 Billion to the worlds largest terrorist nation for their development of nuclear weapons. He didnt even stipulate restrictions against their development of ICBMs which are sitting on their launch pads in Iran currently.

The deep state NWO plan your traitorus bastids are working to effect is called project 21, iirc. That calls for nuclear war to drastically reduce the worlds human population in a plan designed to affect the Cabals survival.

That's the reason your sweetheart, Hillary, said she would shoot Putins jets from the sky over Syria. They are trying to start a nuclear war.

Now, I could go on about why U1 deal was to get uranium to the cabals CIA to build suitcase nucs to ship to the US in Chinas metal sea containers on ships that are to dock in Chinese owned ports in the US in Ca and Fl but I think folks get the idea. That involves the reason Zero and Hill didnt send relief to the amb in Benghazi. They needed him dead. Others were told to stand down to let him die within the plan.

I think folks can see why I consider you to be a no good lowlife commie pos.

Hell, we're all being replaced by 3rd world orcs. Demographics is destiny. Of course it's the worst kind of racist to notice such things.

I work in the tech industry, nothing lasts more than a few years. The longest gig I had was seven years at one job, but lasted 20 years in one company. I probably had eight jobs in that company in 20 years. I've always done the same basic engineering stuff. The money is good so you just move on to the next gig. The life of a tech engineer .... but I've done worse for a lot less money. I've started doing real estate as a side gig so when things go I can still work for myself.

Glad that it worked out that way.

I worked underground nuclear test for 30 years, the 10 years doing Security Intrusion Protection. I can't remember how many managers the company brought in and asked me to teach them all about underground testing..They all lasted about one test and were gone. Couldn't hack it. The last time I was out recruiting a new boss. I had him set up for an interview when the VP came to my office and told me to put it on hold.Two days later they gave me the job.

One of the PHD 's had gone to his office and asked why they were looking for manager when they already had someone employed that was qualified.

Here I was with a two year associate degree, managing 50+ people from lab techs, to engineers, to PHD's. One snot nosed young engineer told me he wouldn't work for me because I could not teach him anything. I taught him something when I sent his a$$ down the road. Maybe not replaceable, but twice in my career management begged me to come back and work for them. From the time I was 21 until I retired at 60, I only worked for two companies.I was never laid off, never fired, never took one penny in unemployment insurance. I quit the first job after ten years to go to a company that respected hard work, good ethics, and experience instead of a piece of paper.

Hahaha. Great story.

Some thing to ponder grave yards are full of indispensable people..

Any time a company offers any kind of training, take it!

Often it comes down to who has the most qualifications on paper. Doesn't matter who is the best person for the job.

Plenty of people here, myself included, have been passed over for promotions, raises, and layoffs. This is solely due to the right kind of check mark by your name. Doesn't make it right nor fair.

If a job is worth doing -
Well, it's worth doing.

Worked for a Fortune 500 construction company for over 17 years (two jobs of 5 years each prior to that job). The engineering/design department had been trying to convince the owner and the company president to swap over to CAD and that we "dinosaurs" could learn to run a computer a lot faster than a tech-school grad could learn the business we were in. They eventually concurred. Moved and left that job when my bride accepted an upper level management position in her company requiring a relocation. I remained unemployed by choice for 3 months after the move. Got bored and found another job in a related field and worked there for 3 years. Got hooked up with an engineering company and left the 3 year-long job. Went out on my own doing a lot of work for the company I left after 17 years and stayed with that until I retired 2 years ago. Working for myself was a lot better financially than any other job I ever had and worked about 1/2 the hours per year. Except for the self-imposed 3 month layoff, I went from one job to the next with a maximum of a weekend break - over 43 years. The point of this long missive is - it can be done on your terms without taking unemployment, welfare, being fired or laid off. I think I may just have been extremely lucky . . .

I happen to be an expert in my field with few peers. I try to keep managers ignorant so they don't know enough to consider replacing me. However, they could get by with someone who doesn't really know what I know or is able to perform at my level. I prefer they remain so ignorant they are scared to try.

Good management would never consider replacing me.
Bad management has made the mistake of not giving me incentive to stick around. I have heard about regrets and loss but its not like everything completely fell apart.

So, yeah, anyone can be replaced whether it is a good idea or not.

Oops

My bad

That was supposed to go on the Amish thread

If you die on the job, Your job will be posted before your obituary !!

To those who think they are irreplacable I say this - We are all replaceable.

Take a glass of water, put your finger in it, remove your finger and see how big of a hole is left when you remove your finger from the water.

drover

No matter how much time you put in at work one year, ten years, thirty years... you’re forgotten 5 min after you walk out the door.

Do that repeatedly and watch the water level.

"No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's,
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee."

John Donne

I quit one time when I was a head builder and the swing shift supervisor. I visited the boss one time. He told me they had to hire three people to do what I used to do. Replaceable? Yes, but at a cost.

Skilled labor is hard to find, that's why morons are moved to management.