I have been cleaning up a project that was broken so it could be moved into someone else's workstream.. guess I did a good job cause they fired him and had me take over both.. fml. I hate PMing.

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Or they fired him for other reasons and you were the natural fallback?

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You may have been the least bad option 🤡
Did they really fire him or just roll 'em off?

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You're just that good

I wish I were a worse option. Fixing projects is fun. Managing them sucks.

Fired.

To be fair, he was pretty terrible and I think this was the plan the whole time. I was just too dense to see it coming.

Yep, definitely one way they handle firings

Fired or laid off?

With the exception of one project, every single project I've been brought onto at my firm in the last 5 years involved me replacing someone who was immediately fired.

One of these days I'll get to start something from scratch...

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