From the title I expected a procedure to test if management & HR will act on unacceptable behavior. The story makes more sense, but could still be a good idea, seeing as how many underperformers and bad apples there are in some companies.
An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
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Re: An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
#52Ticketmaster the employee There's actually a good Freakanomics episode on this[1]. How tickets are undervalued and part of Ticketmaster's value is that they take blame for the high prices. [1] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/live-event-ticket-market-scr...
Thank you, this led me to an excelent piece of research by one of the economists invited, Eric Budish, on market design and how current continuous trade architectures of most financial markets strongly favor the negative aspects of HFT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvNJID_7iHI
Re: An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
#53Yes, while working a telemarketing job for quick cash secretly I encountered just this sort of thing. I had spent all of my graduation gift money meant for my first apartment right after high school and had to take a night shift somewhere. I found this telemarketing place and they had a dead simple test they used for prospective hires. My friends told me they would hire anyone no matter what. Surprisingly, someone fa…
And you made your money back! You really took responsibility for your mistakes. Great Scott I need to get my act together. :)
Re: An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
#54I thought this might be about a company testing whether it was any good at getting rid of bad employees.
Re: An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
#55This works as long as he doesn't get fired twice in front of the same customer.
The point is to discourage the customer from complaining because of the harsh treatment the customer will receive. Therefore yes, if it comes to that, it has failed.
Some people complain just so they can watch the boss chew out some employee. That's satisfaction for being badly treated/buying something that was faulty.
Re: An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
#56Why don't they have a normal employee play the "be fired" role? Unless he gets fired 8 times a day, I don't see why he's idle...
It is a bit embarrassing when they keep shopping and see the guy that was fired working in the store, or see them the next day or the next week. They might just catch on.
Re: An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
East Asians have some of the best outcomes of any demographic: higher income, more educated, lower criminality, lower divorce rate, etc. In a country that is arguably designed to maximally benefit whites, they are beating white people at basically everything. This goes far beyond gaming credentials, it's real world outcomes. We could stand to lower our bar with them a little and still get ahead.
or you could say we are for the most part only taking in a certain segment of the population from these countries. Educated and already middle class or higher. You are not comparing apples to apples.
Do you suppose we're selecting East Asian immigrants in a special way compared to other regions?
Re: An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
#58I'm pretty sure I saw Friends episode with almost exactly the same premise.
Re: An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
#59Not 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…
The 'fired' employee in this case is actually a janitor, IIRC.
Re: An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
#60This 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.
It’s already happening. I have a friend in China and like many ex pats he had several jobs - teaching at a college, tutoring English at home and some IT consulting.
He’s back in the UK now, last summer several of his ex pat friends and colleagues were busted by investigators parachuted in from Beijing. They were detained, their visas were revoked and given a week to get out of the country. Fortunately he was in Beijing when it happened and got Chinese colleagues to clear out his stuff and any paperwork from the college, but he had to roll up all his gigs.