Sometimes it feels like I also have this job. Except for some reason, my employers only sack me once, and for real.
An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
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Re: An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
#22This reminds me of the jobs in China where you can get paid literally walk around being white. For example, being a white guy who cuts the ribbon of a factory opening and walks around shaking hands can make $1k/wk. http://www.chinawhisper.com/the-5-weirdest-but-best-jobs-for...
Apparently that's going to be a lot harder as the Party starts looking a lot closer at foreign work visas over the next few years.
Maybe we should revisit our immigration policy that punishes China for having "too many" immigrants to the US and also our University policies which racially discriminate against the Chinese for being over-represented. If this trade/economic war is going to keep heating up, we might as well try to steal as many of their best and brightest as possible.
Re: An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
#23This works as long as he doesn't get fired twice in front of the same customer.
We gave him a second chance and he ruined the customer's merchandise again!?! Fire him for good, this time!
Re: An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
#24No less an authority than Danny Baker . . . the comedy writer, born in '57? Or else who? How would he know about this?
I think that’s the authors way of saying the story is unverifiable in any way.
Re: An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
#25I had a boss that used to scold me in front of others to show that he was tough and impartial. It took two or three times to see the pattern (he expected me to see by myself). Too good I didn't overreact...
Urgh. That's such a basic leadership thing (scold in private) that it just infruiates me that someone wouldn't get that. Hopefully your boss figured that out or was moved out of a leadership position. It's roughly the equivalent of a developer that writes shit code with concurrency issues, basic code smells, etc...that would be drummed out in short order. For some reason, we don't hold leaders to the same standard.
The company I work for, until this month, primarily employed contractors for all development work. When asked why a commonly used utility nearly always segfaulted at exit, response was: it's normal, just ignore it. Part of the reason they are no longer employed by us.
Re: An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently that's going to be a lot harder as the Party starts looking a lot closer at foreign work visas over the next few years.
Maybe we should revisit our immigration policy that punishes China for having "too many" immigrants to the US and also our University policies which racially discriminate against the Chinese for being over-represented. If this trade/economic war is going to keep heating up, we might as well try to steal as many of their best and brightest as possible.
I do think we get their best and brightest. Gaming credentials is an art form in China and can't be taken at face value.
Re: An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
#27This reminds me of the jobs in China where you can get paid literally walk around being white. For example, being a white guy who cuts the ribbon of a factory opening and walks around shaking hands can make $1k/wk. http://www.chinawhisper.com/the-5-weirdest-but-best-jobs-for...
Apparently that's going to be a lot harder as the Party starts looking a lot closer at foreign work visas over the next few years.
Considering it is mostly just for photo ops (my understanding is that is what they're mostly used for), it probabbly doesn't get much attention. They could pay the dude cash and get the same thing.
Re: An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
#28Isn't that kind of what a Chief Compliance Officer is there for?
So that if something goes so badly wrong that the CEO would otherwise be the one put in jail, in this case the CCO goes instead?
Re: An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also heard the story of a digital agency that rented a huge space, painted the walls with bright colors and hired a bunch of actors to pose as employees. The idea was to deceive and close a deal with a potential big client that insisted in visiting their offices.
Uh, a good friend of mine did that a couple of years ago when he started a new design agency. He was going for a large government contract and they insisted on an in-house meeting as part of the pre-tender process. He had a large office space already, in preparation for growth, but only 1 employee at that stage, so he got his high school aged daughter in, as well as some of her friends to sit in the empty desks and p…
> pre-tender process
If that wasn't intentional, it should have been.
Re: An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
#30Not surprising that large companies would have 'stooge' employees in place for just this sort of thing. I have heard of it happening in at least one major store chain here many years ago. Kind of reminiscent of one of the first episodes in the series 'Suits' where Louis Litt is interviewing a new junior employee for the firm, and he pulls in another junior mid-interview to dress him down and dismiss him in front of t…
I also heard the story of a digital agency that rented a huge space, painted the walls with bright colors and hired a bunch of actors to pose as employees. The idea was to deceive and close a deal with a potential big client that insisted in visiting their offices.
Sounds like Saatchi & Saatchi