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This reminds me of a parable: An employee at a big company makes a mistake that costs the company $500,000. The client is livid, and demands he be fired. The o
by gregmac 9y ago
This reminds me of a parable:
An employee at a big company makes a mistake that costs the company $500,000. The client is livid, and demands he be fired. The owner's response? "Why would I fire him? I just spent half a million dollars on training!"
- brandonwamboldt 9y agoThis tends to be over-used though. Unfortunately some employees would continue making $500,000 mistakes and never learning. It really depends on the employee's attitude and response to the incident, as well as the circumstances of the incident.
- floatingatoll 9y agoIt depends also on the employer's attitude and response to the incident. If the employee behaves perfectly and writes an impeccable post-mortem and is then fired "at the request of a client", that's on the employer, not the employee.