the way i look at it is, ur manager doesnt understand how u derive the numbers and is now only questioning it coz they need to know as well in case the new joiner ask them how is this number derived?

that is the impression i get from ur wall of text. nothing malicious

i joined my company and they didnt tell me shit how the numbers are gotten except that it was based on a formula that the very first analyst did and my manager didnt know how it was calculated as well and i was mega blur for the first couple months.

i had to reverse engineer it to figure it out but honestly it takes too much time and it created more questions in the process. i would love it if the previous analyst could explain it to me so i understand it

even if the new joiner has 20+ years of experience, u cant expect them to look at ur numbers and go AHA, got it, within like 1 week or wtv it is right?

honestly i feel like everytime i start at a new place, the person i am replacing is a fking bitch about leaving and will always hide as many skeleton in the closet as possible and i am the one that will have to eat the shit after they left

they will no explain shit on how they arrive at this calculation and they wont explain why they did this routine thing this way, and often time they will just use excuse like 'the previous analyst did it this way so i just repeat the same thing'

bro, u definitely dont understand it if all u do is copy + paste the steps the previous analyst did, this is how knowledge is lost over time.

the fact that ur complaining about this kind of thing makes me think ur kinda problematic and ur skeleton is about to fall out of the closet so ur feeling agitated by it

btw alot of skeleton did fall out after the person i replaced left and i ate alot of blame for not knowing this and that exist and for not bringing it to my manager's attention.

what a dumb joke, i didnt know this and that process exist so how can i bring it up to my manager about it lmao. it was such a shit company to work in all thanks to the previous analyst that does shit like what ur trying to do lol