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> We recognize that this will mean we need to plan for training and mentoring, promotions, and internal mobility as well, and we are here to support you in that

> We recognize that this will mean we need to plan for training and mentoring, promotions, and internal mobility as well, and we are here to support you in that. This makes me believe they are trying to do it right and not just cutting costs for its own sake.

rapjr9 5y ago
Mentoring someone can result in you yourself being fired. You train someone to be able to do what you can do, and now you have a person who has the skills and costs the company a lower salary than yours. If the company decides to reduce the workforce guess who gets fired? You do! Happened to me, company I worked for lost $2M due to poor management, I had just trained a new young worker, they kept him and fired me. It turned out to be one of the best things that ever happened to me since it led to my getting much more interesting and higher paid work. It was however distressing and felt very unfair. So be careful, think about your particular situation and whether the mentoring you are doing is fully sufficient to replace you. It is painful to have to compete with the people you work with, and in some situations unnecessary, but stay aware it may be necessary sometimes. Keep an eye on how well the company you work for is doing, if sales go down, get cautious. If RedHat is trying to cut costs be leery of mentoring anyone to the extent they could replace you because reducing the workforce is the easiest way to cut costs and having you train someone could be a sneaky way to keep the skills but lower the salaries. Mentor new hires to only do a subset of what you do, or better still to do something very different than what you do. If management insists you teach them everything you do, start looking for a new employer.
- lobstrosity420 5y ago
  If you can transfer the entirety of your skills to a junior developer over a few weeks of mentoring you probably deserve to get fired.

rapjr9 5y ago

Mentoring someone can result in you yourself being fired. You train someone to be able to do what you can do, and now you have a person who has the skills and costs the company a lower salary than yours. If the company decides to reduce the workforce guess who gets fired? You do! Happened to me, company I worked for lost $2M due to poor management, I had just trained a new young worker, they kept him and fired me. It turned out to be one of the best things that ever happened to me since it led to my getting much more interesting and higher paid work. It was however distressing and felt very unfair. So be careful, think about your particular situation and whether the mentoring you are doing is fully sufficient to replace you. It is painful to have to compete with the people you work with, and in some situations unnecessary, but stay aware it may be necessary sometimes. Keep an eye on how well the company you work for is doing, if sales go down, get cautious. If RedHat is trying to cut costs be leery of mentoring anyone to the extent they could replace you because reducing the workforce is the easiest way to cut costs and having you train someone could be a sneaky way to keep the skills but lower the salaries. Mentor new hires to only do a subset of what you do, or better still to do something very different than what you do. If management insists you teach them everything you do, start looking for a new employer.

lobstrosity420 5y ago
If you can transfer the entirety of your skills to a junior developer over a few weeks of mentoring you probably deserve to get fired.