> if there is a problem with someone fitting into the culture, then it is the culture that needs to change. I don't think this is realistic. Suppose I move to

> if there is a problem with someone fitting into the culture, then it is the culture that needs to change. I don't think this is realistic. Suppose I move to Texas and manage to start working for a company that likes to watch rodeos on weekends and listens to country music all day in the office. Meanwhile, I'm a techno guy who can't stand rodeos nor country music. I start to get irritated with the all-day-country thing, and (as it turns out) work sometimes gets discussed at these rodeos everyone else is going to that I'm missing, so I always end up a little behind where everyone's at regarding work stuff. The rest of the team starts to perceive this as me "not really caring" or whatever, and eventually I get fired due to "lack of fit". I cannot claim veiled discrimination because I am a white male getting fired by other white males (and perhaps some females, but not 50%). Do you really expect the entire company to conform to my taste in things? I took race and gender out of the picture here to try to show that this is unrealistic. > carl is someone i would let go because he is uncooperative. Honestly it's weird that he was even kept around. Sometimes, people who are willing to butt heads on something are good workers, though. > if the difference in cultures falls along diversity lines, i would very carefully examine what the actual culture is and make a strong effort to push for a culture change. I think the best time to do this is at the start, because I also think that after you get above, say, 20 people, the cultural trajectory has already been set and it becomes massively harder to change.