Taking a job where previous holder has been managed out

[Pissedoffandcovidy]

Anyone ever done this? I’m very wary that the atmosphere could be terrible. I believe the previous holder has been in the company for 10 years.

I managed someone out. She should have gone years before and was the laziest person I have ever worked with and had no shame about leaving her colleagues with the lion's share of the workload. She had plenty of opportunities to keep her job but she chose to believe she had a right to receive a salary for very little output.

She was actually a nice woman if you didn't have to work with her, no one in our department missed her but she was popular with other departments because they didn't know what she was like to work with so there were some grumbles elsewhere when she finally left but that soon died down and her replacement is AWESOME and everyone is so much happier as it breeds a lot of discontent if people don't pull their weight.

She'd also been there for around 10 years and it was me coming in as a new manager and being gobsmacked at what she felt she could get away with that meant once I settled in, I started the ball rolling. Now several years after her departure my department's reputation has vastly improved as people know we are responsive and get things done now.