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Don't handle them. Regardless of age. Pick out the worst and get rid of them. You may find the troubles with the others diminish. Being fired once or twice in

Don't handle them. Regardless of age. Pick out the worst and get rid of them. You may find the troubles with the others diminish. Being fired once or twice in life is a character building experience. It often makes you re-assess your worth and take work more seriously. And later, as a person becomes (potentially) a manager, they realize the ego crush that is being fired and treat with respect, unlike "kid" managers who haven't been through the process and fire without understanding, sometimes for little more than an ego boost. Also, removing impediments to the common goal is necessary for an organization to thrive. Everyone eventually has to grow up. But it's a confusing world right now. There isn't anything to trust because we know so much more. And the school system has been preaching unrealistic pablum which gets under the skin after a bit. Sometimes it takes a hard knock or two to understand the underlying nature of commerce and human interaction. Unfortunately, (like germophobe moms) we have made a bad habit of deferring these essential lessons thus weakening the ability to deal with the very real, very dirty world. So for those two reasons, don't feel bad, don't try to fix and don't coddle. It won't work anyway.

cryoshon 9y ago
>to understand the underlying nature of commerce and human interaction that we can't treat people as anything other than a means to make money under capitalism?
- mythrwy 9y ago
  Not sure were that was stated (or even implied) but since you ask, no, particularly with the modifier "anything other than". We are born in blood. And we return to mud. That's the essence of our beginning and our end. Nobody likes this. So, we sanitize with (very important) abstractions. To make it so life is more than a reptilian struggle. To allow civilization, working collaboratively, a degree of security, care for the weak, all the things that make it possible to transcend the law of jungle and live beyond our biology. But the underlying reality doesn't go away just because we have abstracted on top of it. People sometimes forget why abstractions are important. Or, sometimes they forget there is a hard reality underlying. The nature of the abstraction named "commerce" and the nature of the abstraction named "human interaction" is that of give and take. Not give and give. And both abstractions depend for existence on trust, on integrity, on honor, and on the willingness to part with something in exchange for something. Point being, sometimes it takes getting down to primal gut level emotions to understand abstractions are abstractions, why they exist and how they relate to underlying reality. Along with integrity and self sacrifice, respect is an important virtue that seems to be increasingly lacking. It won't be for long. These things will come back again because they are vital to any useful abstraction layer.

cryoshon 9y ago

>to understand the underlying nature of commerce and human interaction that we can't treat people as anything other than a means to make money under capitalism?

mythrwy 9y ago
Not sure were that was stated (or even implied) but since you ask, no, particularly with the modifier "anything other than". We are born in blood. And we return to mud. That's the essence of our beginning and our end. Nobody likes this. So, we sanitize with (very important) abstractions. To make it so life is more than a reptilian struggle. To allow civilization, working collaboratively, a degree of security, care for the weak, all the things that make it possible to transcend the law of jungle and live beyond our biology. But the underlying reality doesn't go away just because we have abstracted on top of it. People sometimes forget why abstractions are important. Or, sometimes they forget there is a hard reality underlying. The nature of the abstraction named "commerce" and the nature of the abstraction named "human interaction" is that of give and take. Not give and give. And both abstractions depend for existence on trust, on integrity, on honor, and on the willingness to part with something in exchange for something. Point being, sometimes it takes getting down to primal gut level emotions to understand abstractions are abstractions, why they exist and how they relate to underlying reality. Along with integrity and self sacrifice, respect is an important virtue that seems to be increasingly lacking. It won't be for long. These things will come back again because they are vital to any useful abstraction layer.