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> But cutting yourself until you bleed doesn't seem a healthy behavior. (To take the analogy probably too far) Due to any number of legal/psychological/morale/
by efsavage 14y ago
> But cutting yourself until you bleed doesn't seem a healthy behavior.
(To take the analogy probably too far) Due to any number of legal/psychological/morale/etc issues, sometimes you need to draw a little blood just to make sure that you got it all. If you hit an artery, well, you're screwed, but if you have a couple of good people stuck in a terrible department, you can nuke the whole department and re-hire the good ones back (often as contractors, then as FTE). This seems silly but compared to the costs of selectively choosing 30k people and it's probably far cheaper.
- hrktb 14y agoThat's a good point. I was thinking about how hard it can be to get rid of corrosive elements that are entrenched in your organization (by definition you can't count on them to filter the wheat from the shaft). Cutting a bulk of your employees and try to get back the good elements afterwards is an interesting solution.