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You'd be surprised at how hard it is to mentally get yourself in the position to fire one of your early employees. Also, I've seen founders delude themselves ov
by mattmanser 12y ago
You'd be surprised at how hard it is to mentally get yourself in the position to fire one of your early employees. Also, I've seen founders delude themselves over someone's competence for months.
Hiring and firing willy nilly is also very, very bad for morale. And those people you interviewed two weeks ago will be starting a job for someone else and you'll have to start hiring all over again.
- danielweber 12y agoI saw a start-up go years without firing[1] a guy with an extremely shitty attitude. But he was a old friend of the CEO who wanted to "fix" him. That place was like a kindergarten. It wasn't a bunch of kids, either: most people were in their 30s. [1] dumb typo
- FeeTinesAMady 12y agoDid you mean you saw the startup go years without firing the guy with the shitty attitude? That would make more sense.
- danielweber 12y agoOops, yeah.