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The bad employee does do untold damage though. They don't live in a vacuum. Good people quit over them (and not everyone is comfortable with blaming it on an in
by shados 8y ago
The bad employee does do untold damage though. They don't live in a vacuum. Good people quit over them (and not everyone is comfortable with blaming it on an individual, so management may not even know they're the reason). Workspace can become toxic. Rumors can start spreading making people not accept a job.
So you lose a lot of people by keeping a bad apple, too. In the example I gave above, at least 4-5 people I know for a fact quit over them before they were dealt with.
- rifung 8y ago> Workspace can become toxic Well this is why I tried to specify only keeping people who were performing poorly not because they were unpleasant to work with. Do people quit because they feel like their coworkers aren't smart or hard working enough?
- brianwawok 8y ago> Do people quit because they feel like their coworkers aren't smart or hard working enough? Yes, especially if the not smart not hard working people get paid more than you do. Very demoralizing.
- shados 8y agoAll the time. The worse is at a high level people don't even realize it, because very quickly the entire workplace becomes "mediocre", and you don't even realize its lacking in "good people" from lack of reference points.