Manager acting weird or is this normal?

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I’ve handed my notice in, it’s not very good circumstances. Ultimately I very much liked my manager but she did something I can’t move on from and I quit just days after.

I’m now working my notice and she’s sending across these conferences she wants me to attend that are to do with a project that wouldn’t even start until next t year (I’ll be gone in November) and she’s put me in for training next week.

Aibu to think this is odd behaviour? I’m fully expecting and willing to work as I normally would until my last day, but giving me work that has no benefit is odd surely?

She is trying to make you feel valued by doing this. Just be upfront and tell her that you are happy to support the team to ensure a smooth transition but you feel that your attendance at such conferences would be waste of time and money for all parties given that you are leaving.

I think she’s definitely trying to keep you.

Refuse these invites/training - simply say that you are leaving next month/Nov and there is no point training for events that take place after you have left.

If she has an issue with that - then call her bluff and do a grievance on her ass before you leave.

Managers who do stuff like this do it because they are cunts, throwing a strop because you are leaving, and they are stuck there to pick up the slack when you're gone and they dont want to do it.

Fuck em. Not your problem. Refuse, refuse refuse!

I would just think she doesn’t want you around so sending you to do other things keeps you away from her

😂 well she knows I’m not coming into the office until my last day so there’s no “keeping me away”

I did kind of wonder if she wanted me to stay. She definitely knows she fucked up and from what I understand they had trouble recruiting for the role I got.

Its now going to require her to put out a new job ad, do interviews, wait for x amount of time for that person to work their leave and then train that person.

Who knows though.

Depends - which sector do you work in? Are these events that need a presence from your company and you’re the only person which can do it?

I am curious to know hat your manager has done?!