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> Funnily enough it made me sick to my stomach. That an overworked employee who had already left the company would stick up for himself? Or that a company wou
by Judgmentality 6y ago
> Funnily enough it made me sick to my stomach.
That an overworked employee who had already left the company would stick up for himself? Or that a company would go to such efforts to try to manipulate a former employee?
I realize my tone doesn't hide my feelings, but even if we disagree I'd still be curious to hear more.
- ycombinete 6y agoMy apologies, I edited my comment as you were typing I think. I added some more.
- marktangotango 6y agoIMO your edit didn't help and you're not getting a lot of sympathy. The point wasn't that the employee is psychopathic as you say, but that management was incompetent by not ensuring a transfer of knowledge and validating before the employee left. You as the buinsess owner should plan for people to not be available and no one person can derail a $10M contract. This is also called the "bus factor". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
- jschwartzi 6y agoAlso yelling at someone who is the only person who can solve your problem is not a good negotiating strategy, especially when it reminds them of why they left. Walking away from a toxic situation is not "psychopathic." It's common sense and if we all did it more then the psychopaths who expect us to stick around through it all would finally learn how to treat other people with respect. It's a job, not a marriage.
- HeyLaughingBoy 6y ago> yelling at someone who is the only person who can solve your problem is not a good negotiating strategy Sadly, I've seen this. Not first hand, but it happened to a friend and I have no reason to doubt his version of the story.
- ycombinete 6y agoIt certainly didn’t help at all! But that’s okay, there was a lot of discussion around it. I th
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoConsider that you are only hearing one side of the story and taking it entirely at face value.
- cogman10 6y agoI mean... what could the other side of the story actually be? "We tried to hire back an employee to build something that we didn't train or try and figure out ourselves and a deadline forced us to pay a large lump sum to that employee". No matter how you slice it, that's really shitty planning on the businesses side. They should have spent the time and money learning how to maintain their shit. By not doing it, they paid a huge price.
- gambiting 6y agoI imagine if it came down to it they could try to pin it on him and say he didn't provide documentation he said he did, and that's why this entire 10M project now can't be delivered. Luckily for him they decided it's easier to just pay the fee.
- cogman10 6y agoEven if he was a shitty employee that doesn't obligate him to work for a price favorable to the company. Hell, they could have fired him for not documenting shit. Because here's the thing, even with how weak US labor laws are, one thing they don't allow is for a company to come back and sue your for incompetence. So long as they didn't go out of their way to sabotage things, they are free and clear.
- sideshowb 6y agoOp says he did provide documentation but they lost it (and hadn't been backing up) after he left
- gambiting 6y agoOf course, but that wouldn't stop them from saying otherwise, suing and binding him in prelonged and expensive legal battle, would it?