Employee gets fired and replaced by younger, cheaper new hire, she lasts 3 weeks at the company: 'Now the company’s back to square one, scrambling to rehire'

Unfair layoffs are, of course, difficult to stomach, but there is definitely some solace in knowing that your company will be absolutely lost without you.

Not every employee can fully tap into that sense of fulfillment. We're talking about individuals who are exceptionally skilled at their jobs, often underpaid in relation to their capabilities. These are employees who manage to go above and beyond, even when it's to their own detriment. Their employers are not plugged in enough to even recognize the impact that these hard workers have had in their roles. They assume that they can find anyone who will be able to meet this level of expectation. However, only the employee knows the truth that they are, to quote the song from Miss Congeniality, "one in a million."

In this instance, we have an employee who managed to stick it out at a toxic work environment for six months, only to be let go without any warning. It did not take long for the author to learn that they were being replaced. Who was this unicorn individual who could do a better job than the author? Surely, they must be someone more qualified, more capable, and more "worthy" of the author's current salary. Well, it turns out that wasn't the case at all.

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"Stayed 6 months at a toxic workplace and they pushed me out for someone cheaper"

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Instead, the author was being replaced by someone unqualified, less capable, and more willing to accept a lower salary. At the end of the day, the company felt that the author's role was not important enough for the salary they were giving her, when in fact, they were underestimating her level of impact on the company. Let's just say that it did not take long before the new hire expressed an inability to handle these responsibilities with the ease that the author once could.
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What's at the very least notable about the replacement is that she must have felt that all this pressure was not worth the salary she was making. So in the end, the company's decision to find someone cheaper backfired and left them scrambling. If they are really willing to learn their lesson, they would realize that finding someone as capable as the author for the replacement's salary will be next to impossible. Best of luck… not!
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