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PaperclipPerfector  3d ago (text post)   1135 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for December 12, 2025

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I wonder if she left because she saw herself at an ethical or liability crux, and thought you were competent such that you'd end up next in line after she retired, and didn't want you to feel like she was abandoned/shoving it on you or for you to not be aware of the scope of the problem.

(1) She informed the whole office of the mentor program's shenanigans in a non-private manner months before resigning. In this private rendezvous she did nothing but inform me that she had sent her resignation email to the bigwigs a few minutes ago.

(2) I did not have an engineer's license, so I was not eligible to volunteer in the mentoring program, and I would not have been interested in volunteering even if I had been licensed. (In the absence of any salary incentives, and with my plans to retire early, I had no interest in obtaining a license.) Her mentoring volunteering was transferred to another licensed volunteer in a different office, and her non-mentoring work was transferred to a different person in our office (not to me).

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