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Usually I actually share your opinion. But last year I was in a situation where I spent a lot of my work time, spare time, and private ressources (e.g. invites
by erikb 10y ago
Usually I actually share your opinion. But last year I was in a situation where I spent a lot of my work time, spare time, and private ressources (e.g. invites to lunch or cinema, even letting a new coworker use my apartment for free while looking for an apartment of his own).
My goal was to build a real team out of the random bunch of coworks and actually succeeded. In the end we were a competitive, cooperating, efficient machine putting out about 10 mandays of customer value in 2-3 real time days if necessary.
In that example I really felt compelled to leave WITH the coworkers. True they were hired by my employee, but the team was built by my coworkers and me.
PS: So, considering examples like that, maybe next time you could try to formulate yours a little more open for alternatives. E.g. "Interesting point of view. Let me add another one: [...]" What do you think?
- geofft 10y agoI'm missing something in your anecdote - at what point did you and your current coworkers leave? Who was the employee that hired them? If you built a team for the benefit of your company on company time, and that team decides to leave as a whole, that's one thing. If you spend company time on recruiting people to another company, that's very different!
- jamra 10y agoYou are assuming there are no malicious employees who are economically inclined to steal from your company. If this is allowed as the norm, your wonderful "friends" from work who stay at your place would smile the entire time they are making millions selling you out.
- erikb 10y ago> You are assuming there are no malicious employees who are economically inclined to steal from your company. Why do you think that? I don't. And I don't want to allow anything as the norm. So, not sure where you are coming from. Did you respond to the wrong comment?