Boss been made redundant and now not talking to me

[NoImRenlea]

We have recently had a restructure at work and told some roles are at risk. I was told I was up for promotion and I’d be getting a bigger role by the divisional head. Lovely.

however it’s now transpired that the way this has happened is that my boss has been made redundant and is leaving at the end of this week (having been told at the start of the week). she is now not talking to me.

im really upset. I have worked with my boss for about 5 years, we have got on so well and a lot of what I’ll now be doing is things she has done / started and need to be handed over. I have sent her a message saying how sorry I am, how much I’ll miss her and to see if she has time for a catch up. No response. The only emails she has responded to had a really off tone saying she wasn’t handing something over and it was up to me if I wanted to create it from scratch (this is almost a whole projects worth of work and is due next week, no chance of me doing it all)

I think the mature thing is to give her space and realise it’s about her and how sad / shocked / upset she would be, but I’m also feeling sad for the relationship I’ve lost. I’d never stab her in the back or have done anything to suggest I wanted her job

Any advice here?

Sadly you're unlikely to be able to rebuild the relationship with her, but you still have a job to do. Concentrate on the project - level with the people you should be reporting to about the situation and let them apply whatever pressure is required for her to release the work done.

Regardless of your sympathy for her, the work needs doing, and whatever she's done to date belongs to the employer.

If they can't make her cooperate then it'll be in there somewhere, IT can restore deleted files and access "private" folders.

Have you worked for Americans under American laws?

This is the way forward, OP. Just tell your higher ups. It’s their job to manage the transition, it’s only yours to execute your role, which you’re being frustrated in doing. They need to fix it for you.

I've been through redundancies and I work in change management.
Her redundancy - notwithstanding utterly shit employment laes where she is - has been handled incredibly badly. Your firm should now assume that she will make no handover and spend the week saving contacts and deleting things. You will just have to cope, unfortunately.

In your shoes, OP, I'd send her one final email asking her to give you the status of things you need to know about, and wish her well for the future.

Am going to assume you know who the project teams are?