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This advice is so shockingly bad that I'm wondering if this is a deliberate spoof. This is the kind of management behaviour that erodes trust. Destroys teams.
by EliRivers 8y ago
This advice is so shockingly bad that I'm wondering if this is a deliberate spoof.
This is the kind of management behaviour that erodes trust. Destroys teams. Stops people thinking about what's best for the company and has them thinking only about how to protect themselves. Team members turn on each other. Every bug becomes a blame game. The good people look for new jobs to move on to. People write anonymous blog posts about the company and how this manager had a screaming fit and trashed some guys desk while firing him; every potential customer googling the company reads it and watches the footage on youtube if someone was fast with their phone.
- Aeolun 8y agoI think you have a slightly distorted view of how firing works in a well-adjusted company. If someone is slowly eroding the motivation of your other engineers, then you should get rid of them for both your sakes (they probably hate working there anyway).
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- EliRivers 8y agoWhat you say about needing to fire some people seems a complete non-sequitur, as if I'd been advocating to never fire people; as if my "distorted view" is to never fire anyone. That is not my view.
- Aeolun 8y ago> This advice is so shockingly bad that I'm wondering if this is a deliberate spoof. This is the kind of management behaviour that erodes trust. Then what is the behaviour you are talking about here? I must be missing something.
- EliRivers 8y agoThen what is the behaviour you are talking about here? I must be missing something. Picking someone almost at random to fire. Humiliating and ridiculing him publicly. Yelling and screaming and throwing a tantrum. Throwing his private property over the floor. Swearing at him throughout. That behaviour. That is shockingly incompetent behaviour that causes huge amounts of damage. Everything that "insiderknowled" said. His post is dead; maybe you can't see it? Here's what I see: https://ibb.co/TByZw8J https://ibb.co/TByZw8J
- Aeolun 8y agoAh fuck, I think I missed the fact it was dead, and thought you initially replied to: > While I don’t think you should fire someone just to set an example, the scarcity of developers is precisely why you should fire those who are negatively impacting the teams and are unwilling to change. Oh well. Yeah, I completely agree with your post given the original. Hard to think that it wasn’t a joke.
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