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Exactly. Somebody who is universally hated by their co-workers should just be let go. Nothing to do with a layoff. So everybody who is around has some reason fo
by karparov 2y ago
Exactly. Somebody who is universally hated by their co-workers should just be let go. Nothing to do with a layoff. So everybody who is around has some reason for actually being there. In a well-managed place, that is.
- cratermoon 2y ago> Somebody who is universally hated by their co-workers How many times have we seen a company fire whoever they consider "dead weight" but keep the universally hated guy because he's a 10x rockstar whatever?
- karparov 2y agoA 10x person who brings down 20 others to a small fraction of their potential and causes other rockstars to leave is still net-negative. Good management understands this. (And I'm not sure why I'm downvoted for this. Nothing about that should be controversial?)
- cratermoon 2y agoExactly. So the company keeps the guy everyone hates after laying off people that get along. The next people to leave the company are the ones disgusted by the move.
- karparov 2y agoDepends on the company. I've seen the opposite case were such a person was let go, much to everybody's relief. Some people had to clean up his mess, which was genius in the sense that it worked flawlessly, but nobody else could maintain it, so he had locked in a minimal bus factor. Which makes such a move harder to execute, but the earlier the better.
- shagie 2y agohttps://www.freecodecamp.org/news/we-fired-our-top-talent-best-decision-we-ever-made-4c0a99728fde/ https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/we-fired-our-top-talent-be... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15474893 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15474893 (2017) (133 points | 130 comments)
- guappa 2y agoI've seen the opposite happen: fire the unsocial guys and keep the social guys that do absolutely nothing but flame and troll on slack.