The satisfaction of quitting your job–freeing yourself from the shackles that once felt unshakeable–can only be marred by one thing: the hiring of someone far shittier than you to fulfill your role. While, sure, you can do your best to “train” your successor, we all know you’ve checked out mentally long ago, around one millisecond after you gave your two weeks notice.
But really, why should it be your responsibility to train a person that should already be qualified to take over your job? Therein lies just one of the many injustices of working corporate: only half brain dead people can usually be found to enter the cubicle confines. They certainly don’t want anyone with too much of a mind in their building–it would spread like a disease, this one person’s knowledge of just how unpleasant and unnecessary the working environment is. In any case, that’s why successors to those who have quit are often progressively worse. The saying, “Good help is hard to find” exists for a very distinct reason.
Meanwhile, you’re just trying to enjoy your momentary retirement before the next phase in your life, and everyone’s blowing you up with texts and emails about how terrible the new guy is, and can you help with this project that you still have vast and extensive expertise in. It’s then you wish they’d appreciated you in the moment–for there is very little satisfaction in retrospective appreciation.