redundancy

cruel truth - only the good ones are allowed to stay

Last Friday, my team leader requested to have a chat with me.
Gahhhhhh.......shoot me please! I dislike talking to him in person.

He broke the news to me that he has been made redundant.

Not that I was expecting this to happen, but it didn't came as a surprise to me either.
Perhaps I was too caught up emotionally with the fact that Derek's leaving, I don't know.

I could only manage, 'Oh okay.'
I know it sounds emotionless and uncompassionate, just couldn't help it Lol.
My heart has turned cold for him.

He asked me to provide feedback on how he could improve for his future roles.
He said in his TWENTY years of career, he hasn't come across a work-relationship as strained as ours - he wants to know what and where went wrong.

Well, in my SEVEN years of career experience, I haven't come across someone who's so difficult to work with and at the same time incompetent. Usually, people are difficult because they know too much but he is the total opposite.

With 20 years of experience, he should be Principal or Manager and be telling people what and how to do things. Not just sit around and give excuses like 'I haven't done this before' and 'I'm new to this'.
It feels like he hibernated for 10 years in between those years.

I really hope he can improve but I do need to maintain professionalism hence I can't be too blunt with my words.

The only thing I told him was to not contradict himself.
Be sure of the information he is giving out. Don't say one thing today and another tomorrow. If unsure, just don't say anything, so that people don't get confused (and f**ked up) because of his contradicting words. It's hard to progress if he keeps changing his mind (reason why I can't work with you because uncertainties drive me MAD haha) while nothing's fixed  - it's a waste of time and effort (and after all the wasted time, don't fking send emails and cc everyone above reminding me of deadlines; indirectly holding me responsible for the missed deadline - such a cowardly behaviour for a team leader).

Thanks to my EQ, I didn't utter the sentences in brackets above. Lol.
They were already at the end of my tongue.

I guess it all goes back to the fact that he doesn't know his stuff.
How can one be sure of anything if he knows nothing?

I hope he finds himself a job which can relate to his 20 years' experience and be a more 'useful' engineer.
All the best to him (and his future colleagues too of course).