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Pretending to be a family is bad news. Especially if you tell prospective employees that and then remind them that employment is "at will".
by stretchwithme 9y ago
Pretending to be a family is bad news. Especially if you tell prospective employees that and then remind them that employment is "at will".
- FireBeyond 9y agoRight? "We're a family... and if you fuck up, you're outta the family."
- solidsnack9000 9y agoSo, trying to be like one of the five families.
- stretchwithme 9y agoNot even. Business errors or just a bad economy can get you laid off from the family. "Times are hard, Jimmy. So Mom will drop you off downtown."
- jmtame 9y agoThe family relationship has always been a horrible way of describing the employee/employer relationship. There's divorce or disowning someone, but do you really want to try and draw that comparison when you fire someone? A team has players and they're always being traded to different teams. That's both more positive and honest when you're trying to describe a high-performant culture. And there's also no concept of unconditional love in a company. There's respect, which should be a given. But you shouldn't be expected to unconditionally love your co-workers.
- dboreham 9y agoJim Barksdale : "This ain't a family and I'm not yer Daddy".