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By your very logic, it should be fine to release or terminate people by e-mail. I would bet that if the tables were turned, and Calacanis had terminated Evan by
by slantyyz 17y ago
By your very logic, it should be fine to release or terminate people by e-mail. I would bet that if the tables were turned, and Calacanis had terminated Evan by e-mail, that Calacanis would be taking even more heat than he is now.
Call me old school, but the best to worst order of quitting (and on the flip side, firing) is this - face to face, telephone, e-mail only if it's impossible to arrange the first or second.
- tptacek 17y agoThough people do clearly get fired by email, I personally think employers have a greater obligation to be courteous about firing than employees do about quitting. People have given me notice via email before, and I think no worse of them for it.
- slantyyz 17y agoWhy should the obligation be any greater? Economically, they're paying employees fair value for some specified output. There should be an equal expectation of professionalism on both sides.
- tptacek 17y agoBecause you have multiple employees, most of whom only have one job, and who, unlike the employer, depend on the relationship for their livelihood. I'm not sure I'd use the word "professionalism" to describe this obligation. People have given me notice via email before, and I don't think they were unprofessional for it.
- slantyyz 17y agoProfessionalism isn't like pregnancy, it's not a binary state. I would categorize a person who resigns by email as an act that's below average on the scale of professionalism. I mean seriously, how hard is it to present your resignation letter in person or by telephone? In any case, let's agree to disagree, since everyone has different standards.