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Yeah or don't be shitty to your employees, or don't hire managers that are so bad at giving negative performance reviews that the employee goes out for revenge.
by hardwaresofton 10y ago
Yeah or don't be shitty to your employees, or don't hire managers that are so bad at giving negative performance reviews that the employee goes out for revenge. This is definitely a people management problem.
The only way to rid yourself of the threat posed by other humans is to run a single-person company, and even then you might screw yourself over.
You will never be able to completely neuter a threat that does any useful service for your company, and it's foolish to think you can. Any useful amount of delegated power or responsibility without the ability to misuse it is very rare, if not impossible.
- ceejayoz 10y ago> Yeah or don't be shitty to your employees, or don't hire managers that are so bad at giving negative performance reviews that the employee goes out for revenge. There are people unable to take even the nicest, most constructive of criticisms (or even perceive non-critical statements as such). Hard to say without knowing the people involved on a personal level.
- pjmorris 10y agoCan you see that it's a people management problem to be careful about the roles you give the kind of people you describe?
- ceejayoz 10y agoSome of these people have learned to hide it pretty well.
- hardwaresofton 10y agoThis is true absolutely true -- my post was a bit of a snap judgement of the management's skills, but it is indeed possible that the person was just as much to blame, though I think it's unlikely