Firing people

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Firing people

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90% of the time the ability to do this effectively separates those who are successful and those who aren’t.

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Seems one thing in common with the millionaires class

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They also all have $1m+ as another thing in common

At high levels you need to be able to. I would say at entry levels you need to be able to assess if they can learn from their mistakes or not

the one time I was a manager, I had an employee that reported to me that was verbally disrespectful and belligerent, so I told him he was fired. he bitched to my boss, and i was told i could not fire him.

i resigned shortly after - don't promote to management and then set allowances on what can be done.

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millionaires class is they have no problem firing an employee at the drop of a hat.

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Their greed makes them self centered and willing to step on anyone else for financial gain,

Look I hate firing people. I have been very lucky to really only have to fire people when they knew they needed to be fired and deserved it. I have had worse problems when I promote someone and “lessen” someone else’s responsibilities.

The company I work for is a family-owned construction business. Successful Mom and Pop operation that is being handed down to silver spoon kids, brother and sister, that absolutely love firing lower level new “hand” type hires. They fired two young guys (21) recently for something very trivial, inconsequential even, that could have been used as a moment of teaching and learning. They chose to fire them the week of thanksgiving, and took joy in it, as far as I could tell.

People should do the job they’re assigned to do to the best of their ability, other than that, one owe’s his or her employer jack shite. Most companies will fire someone and have an ad for their replacement on Indeed before the work day is done.

If people realize that they should act as though they the company has no loyalty to them and employees have no loyalty to a company, work life would be far better.

I've seen so many friends turn their lives upside down under the idea of doing what's best for the company and not doing what's best for themselves. And they often pay the price for it.

No “serious” rules were broken. They were given the task of painting a float for a Christmas parade that the ops manager had built on top of a work trailer. The boys (not painters by any means) got white paint on the trailer frame and didn’t wash it off. They then put the wet, painty rags and brushes in the shop sink and left them. Their deadly sin was not being neat.

My opinion of them overall was that they were young, coachable, clean cut, showed up to work on time and always were doing something to stay busy on job sites.

Management’s position is that if they’ll leave our shop “messy” they’ll do it at a customer’s site (we are commercial and industrial construction fwiw).