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I wonder if you would mind if your boss got burned out writing pay checks and decided he/she needed a break from writing them for a while? Meeting payroll is a
by jakejake 11y ago
I wonder if you would mind if your boss got burned out writing pay checks and decided he/she needed a break from writing them for a while? Meeting payroll is a stress that can be so huge, it will make you yearn for the day when you could just write code and wait for your paycheck to come from the magical paycheck tree.
Obviously no middle manager is feeling that specific stress at Google, but the higher up you go the more your issues and stresses involve keeping the company afloat.
- gaius 11y agoSorry, you think any manager at Google worries about making payroll?? The guy was ill, he should have been put on sick leave not a "performance improvement plan".
- volaski 11y agoYeah you're right, that's what he should have done. Why would a company voluntarily put someone on a sick leave? There are even legal implications for this. Think about it for a moment. I'm sure a company like Google would have given him a (maybe paid, maybe unpaid) sick leave for reasonable amount of time if he had asked. Instead he stuck around, didn't do work, and told the manager he wants to stay because he's "satisfied with the salary". Imagine you're his coworker, working your ass off while this guy proudly doesn't do shit and still makes the same money as you.
- gaius 11y agoDo you not think maybe with burnout or depression, he may not be thinking straight? A manager is supposed to have people skills. Instead they treated him like a malfunctioning machine. Just normal American management culture perhaps, but it doesn't play well in more enlightened countries.
- jakejake 11y agoMaybe you should keep your enlightened racist attitude to yourself.