Irreplaceable

There is a post going around where your employer can replace you in forty-eight hours. Who are these employers? The hiring process is slow. They don't want people to work themselves into an early grave.

I was hit by a car, saw the black smoke coming off the Pentagon on 9/11, hit a wall of indifference with a group laughingly solicited as a "Tribe", worked every scheduled shift during the pandemic and survived seven years of underemployment. It's too late for me to worry about an early grave.

The point of the meme is your family cannot replace you. Alright, that is accurate. You have to take risks and do your best whether it is at work or at home. Some people are irreplaceable.

Certain employees worked in such an individual manner I recall and appreciate what they did. There might be someone else occupying the space. It was like Curtis Painter trying to cover for Peyton Manning in the "Suck for Luck" years.

The definitive irreplaceable quarterback is Dan Marino. Since 2000 the Dolphins have had some respectable quarterbacks. None of them can stay healthy long enough to forget the career of Dan Marino.

For almost fifty years people have said "Saturday Night Live was better when ______ was in the cast." It really depends on when you grew up. No one person is a company. While everyone can be replaced, they may not be replaced with someone who works as efficiently. Everyone has individual strengths.

Hopefully the next employee will blaze a trail of their own. An interviewer asked Michelle Rodriguez if Scott Eastwood was replacing Paul Walker in the Fast and the Furious movies. She responded "No one can replace Paul Walker."

Scott Eastwood was given a different role. While they can replace you at work the contributions you make are not replaceable. At best they will find someone who works comparably. At worst- the position becomes a revolving door negating the money saved by removing a higher paid employee who knew what they were doing.