re: Firing people

Yea lol

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big corp America it's now a PITA to cut someone loose

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Work for the American division of an Indian firm, it's a crapshoot, except there will never be severance. They'll put some people on the bench Friday morning, and they're completely gone by Friday afternoon. Others sit on the bench for 2 months, then get canned. The most recent guy that got fired was on the bench, but had a project starting the following week, and the client had already issued him credentials, etc. Still fired him.

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Or when you have an older employee who says they’re gonna retire, you hire someone to replace them and then all of a sudden the retiree decides they want to work longer because now they aren’t doing anything.

Then it’s, “inflation; my truck broke, my house needed work”. Blah blah. I tell them we pay you a wage and whatever happens, you are responsible for dealing with. It’s not on us to keep you on because you don’t have your financial house in order.

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Going through this now. Have a long termer that has talked a handful of times about retirement but keeps pushing it off. She set a date back at Halloween and now shes pushed it back another 6 months.

As soon as they realize everyone cannot wait for them to leave they like to keep hanging on for some reason. This lady is older and set in her ways.

Hell, I offered this lady 3 months full pay and medical benefits for the next 6 months and she still didnt retire.

FML, sometimes, especially Mondays.

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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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It is far easier to reach a high level of financial success if one is not saddled with emotion and a conscious. Its only business, it is not personal, allowing it to become personal is a failing on the part of management. If it is personal for the employee the employee's emotions have nothing to do with it.