Employee gets moved to another department after 17 years, refuses to train his unqualified replacement: 'He keeps asking me how to do his job'

It wasn't this long-time employee's responsibility to show his replacement the ropes, so why should he?

This company man had given nearly two decades of his life to this large company, where it was not uncommon for people to move from department to department every couple of years or so. Sometimes, this would happen for legitimate reasons. Let's say an employee found a better role that was more suitable for their skill set. Perhaps their superior transferred departments, and they wanted to follow in their footsteps. 

However, this author was recently informed that he would be switching departments simply because it "wasn't working out" between him and his new manager. He took this news personally because, while he understood that he and his boss were not exactly a match made in heaven in terms of their mismatched personalities, he enjoyed the work itself and felt that he was pretty decent at it. Apparently, that was not enough to keep him in that role, and as a result, the author had to change jobs just because the "vibes" were off. 

As for the replacement, well, it turns out that the vibes weren't exactly right either. This new dude was making considerably more money than the author despite the fact that he lacked the experience and qualifications to fulfill these responsibilities. Still, the boss felt he was a better fit for the role for reasons no one else seemed to understand. The problem was that it did not take long before the new guy was asking the author for help every two seconds.