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You are assuming that OP and others are asking this for "fun". I think most managers would agree that firing people is the worst part of the job. Threads like t
by dangwu 7y ago
You are assuming that OP and others are asking this for "fun". I think most managers would agree that firing people is the worst part of the job. Threads like these can serve as valuable places to share hiring/firing experiences and lessons-learned to prevent future firings.
- smt88 7y agoOP's implies that reading people's rants would be fun: > Let’s keep names out of this but I’d love to hear all of your rants. My distaste is that the responses would just be punching down. I've never seen (and struggle to imagine) the value in hearing stories about incompetence. Most people have little trouble recognizing it
- luckylion 7y ago> Most people have little trouble recognizing it in others. Many people, at least in my experience, myself included, have great difficulties seeing it in themselves. Reading about why you'd fire somebody (that I can identify with because of a few lines of context) can lead to questioning my behavior and/or attitude. I don't think incompetence is rant-worthy, really. "This programmer I hired can't program, so I fired him", that's not news. "This programmer I hired can program but he doesn't share his knowledge, so he's becoming a bottleneck and single point of failure, and I cannot afford to have that, so I'm going to fire him if he doesn't change" is something else.