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You're absolutely correct, and I want to highlight one thing you said: Nobody likes firing people. Every manager I've ever worked with hates firing their empl
by aetherson 13y ago
You're absolutely correct, and I want to highlight one thing you said: Nobody likes firing people. Every manager I've ever worked with hates firing their employees -- even really bad ones.
What the "audition" is all about is trying to make it so that you don't ever get into a situation where you hire someone, work with them for a month, and say, "Holy shit, this isn't working out at all, I'd better fire this guy."
In France or something, where it's super-hard to fire people, maybe that makes sense. In California, it's mostly about trying to spare the feelings of the manager.
- hga 13y agoI've found that bad managers tend to be unable to fire people, and one of the things I always tried to gauge when interviewing for a job was if the company was capable of firing. And, yeah, I've had to fire some people. It really sucks, no matter how deserved (well, I'm talking about just not being able to do the job, vs. "for cause" where it's white line stuff, fortunately never had one of those cases).
- kemiller 13y agoI completely get that. I've had to fire people, and it really really sucks. But that's the point: you don't get to externalize that onto your candidates.
- aetherson 13y agoYep! I'm not sure it was clear, but I was agreeing with you.